In Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest , Anne McClintock breaks interdisciplinary boundaries between psychoanalysis and social history in order to dissect the imperial motivations and actions of the British Empire and other imperial powers vying for control of colonized lands and peoples. Building upon the historical work of intellectuals such as Frantz Fanon and Edward Said, she simultaneously challenges their perspectives by presenting the ways imperialism is fundamentally gendered and by bringing forth rich evidence of anti-imperial agency. Her introduction and postscript bracket her book with a skepticism of the “post” in postcolonialism (and many other “post” words) as well as the imperial notion of progress. By examining a wealth of diverse materials – from advertisements and paintings, to letters, biographies, poetry, and novels – McClintock poses a series of provocative and meticulously researched claims on deep and complicated interse...