Carnal knowledge and imperial power : race and the intimate in colonial rule / Ann Laura Stoler.

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [2002], ©2002.

xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-317) and index.

Genealogies of the intimate: movements in colonial studies -- Rethinking colonial categories: European communities and the boundaries of rule -- Carnal knowledge and imperial power: gender and morality in the making of race -- Sexual affronts and racial frontiers: cultural competence and the dangers of métissage -- A sentimental education: children on the imperial divide -- A colonial reading of Foucault: bourgeois bodies and racial selves -- Memory-work in Java: a cautionary tale.