Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism

Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural, intellectual and political history, anthropology, law, gender and sexuality studies, and literary criticism, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialismcombines regional and historiographic overviews with detailed case studies, making it the key reference for up-to-date scholarship on the intimate dimensions of colonial rule. Comprising more than 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companionis divided into five partsDirections in the study of sexuality and colonialismConstructing race, controlling reproductionSexuality in lawSubjects, souls, and selfhoodPleasure and violence.The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialismis essential reading for students and researchers in gender, sexuality, race, global studies, world history, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.