North Africa already had a reputation for loose—or different—morals, for those in the know, underwritten by the exploitation of French colonialism.
Empire and Colonialism
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
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
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
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
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
How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought
How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.
