Anne McClintock (born in Harare, Zimbabwe) is a writer, feminist scholar and public intellectual who has published widely on issues of sexuality, race, imperialism, and nationalism; popular and visual culture, photography, advertising and cultural theory. Transnational and interdisciplinary in character, her work explores the interrelations of gender, race, and class power within imperial modernity, spanning Victorian and contemporary Britain to contemporary South Africa, Ireland, and the United States. McClintock is currently the Simone de Beauvoir Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at UW–Madison,[1] having previously taught at both Columbia University and New York University.

The author and Routledge are to be congratulated on a big, beautiful book that many students of the history of sexuality will find alluring. -- Journal of the History of Sexuality
Imperial Leather is what an academic book ought to be: intelligent, informed, socially committed, engaged, and engaging. -- Women's Review of Books
Imperial Leather is a wonderful book. -- Women's Review of Books
McClintock's magisterial study...is a daring articulation of the race-class-gender triad. -- Choice
Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather takes a prominent place among a number of recent works...that question the relegation of the imperial enterprise to the back benches of the Victorian sensibility...Ms. McClintock's astute reading of novels, diaries, and advertisements, among other sources, demonstrates how images of domestic life can be incorporated into an ideology of imperial domination. -- The New York Times Book Review
Imperial Leather is a very passionately written book, and the reader cannot help but be involved in the various texts that McClintock freely uses. Nothing escapes her hard, penetrating gaze...The work is thoughtful and well researched. I highly recomend it. -- Journal of Carribean Studies
This is a big book, in every sense of the word: big format, big ideas, big aim. -- The Canadian Historical Review
Lucidly written, wide-ranging in its scope, supple and rigorous in its analysis, and impressive in its consistent theorization of gender in relation to other axes of power, Imperial Leather is a major contribution to materialist feminist scholarship. -- Signs
Engaging and frequently brilliant. -- Victorian Studies