Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

By Jessica Hinchy Author Interviews

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.

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality

By notcheseditor History of Sexuality

NOTCHES’ commitment in working toward an anti-racist history of sexuality.

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940

By Julio Capo 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

“Fairyland” came to represent radically different things to discrete groups of people.

From Child Pledging to Child Abuse: How Girl Marriage Changed in Zimbabwe

By Diana Jeater African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism

Attempts to ban child marriage in Southern Rhodesia reflected the Europeans’ tendency to perceive African male sexuality as excessive.

Moral Panic and Syphilis in Jamaica

By Jill Briggs Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body

Venereal diseases became a means through which colonial elites and moral reformers condemned, surveilled, and made medical interventions against the Jamaican masses.