Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

By Jessica Hinchy Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Trans

For many colonial officials, Hijras were not only a danger to ‘public morals’, but also a threat to colonial political authority.

Intimate Interventions: Global Histories of Sexuality and Colonialism

By Chelsea Schields Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism

With thirty-one contributions spanning colonized contexts across the world, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism documents the interventions into reproductive and sexual lives that upheld colonial projects.

Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine

By Orna Alyagon-Darr Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Sexual Violence

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence: plausibility.

Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires

By Julie Peakman Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism

A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.

Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier

By Ashley Currier African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought

By Durba Mitra Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour

How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.

Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain

By Kate Biedermann Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities

A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.