Anne McClintock

Anne McClintock is the Simone de Beauvoir Chair of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Her ground-breaking study, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1995), has had a major impact on our thinking in the areas of colonial and post-colonial studies and in cultural analyses of representations of race, gender and sexuality. She has edited many collections of essays of post-colonial theory and on the sex industry, most notably Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender (1997).