THE 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 Colonialism combines 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 Companion is divided into five parts:Directions in the study of sexuality and colonialismConstructing race controlling reproductionSexuality in lawSubjects souls and selfhoodPleasure and violence.The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism is essential reading for students and researchers in gender sexuality race global studies world history Indigeneity and settler colonialism.