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.

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.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific

By Emily Manktelow Antipodean sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence

A microhistory of a child sexual abuse case in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society.

Truly Ugandan: Martyrs, Pope Francis, and the Question of Sexuality

By T.J. Tallie African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality

Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.

A Chile is Never Just a Chile: Food & Sex in Mexico Before & After Colonization

By Gustavo Corral Empire and Colonialism, Food and Sexuality, Latin American Sexualities

Eating and reproduction are crucial biological processes that are fraught with emotional meanings.

India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism

By Onni Gust Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

The legacy of imperial Victorian sexual mores continue to haunt the lives of gay people in India and large parts of former British colonies.