A review by meeners
Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock

4.0

there's some brilliant food for thought here. deducting one star because the author does not use serial commas. ha! just kidding. (...MAYBE??) it's really because i remain somewhat ambivalent about psychoanalysis in/of/through history (while still acknowledging its usefulness). her rereading of freud's oedipal theory is freaking awesome, at least. and even die-hard anti-psychoanalysis readers should be able to appreciate her main assertion that "race, gender and class are not distinct realms of experience...rather, they come into existence in and through relation to each other - if in contradictory and conflictual ways." chapters 8 & 9 can be skipped if you're just interested in the theory, as they don't really cohere with the rest of the book.

...seriously, though, why don't more people use serial commas :(