Cross-racial colonial intimacies licensed women’s relative privilege and power

Evidence

Women gave into, were even attracted by, the relative privilege and modicum of power such relationships of intimacy licensed. Intimacies, as Ann Stoler has commented upon extensively in the case of the Dutch in the East Indies, enabled a negotiation of the field of modern morality and sociality, the laboratory of modernity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1325

Categorization

• XREF: Directly invokes Ann Stoler’s work on Dutch Indies intimacies as a laboratory of modernity; connects to Foucault’s biopolitics. — connects to: Woman’s status as privileged Other depends on specific social and political conditions — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 320; Colonial pressures shaped Caribbean gender relations and blocked feminism as a spiritual force — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 353; Literature strategically served race, gender, and empire representation — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 243 (+3 more)