The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism

Chelsea Schields is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her scholarship explores the histories of sexuality, race, and the politics of oil and empire in modern Europe and the Caribbean. Her current book project examines how the age of oil and the end of empire brought renewed intervention in Caribbean intimate life. Recent articles have appeared in Radical History Review (2020), Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (2019), and Gender & History (2019). Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005), Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (2011), Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (2017), and Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (2018). She is currently researching the theology and history of disability in Germany, 1900–2020.

Introduction: Sex, Intimacy, and Power in Colonial Studies – Chelsea Schields and Dagmar Herzog; ; Part I: Directions in the Study of Sexuality and Colonialism; Old Empires, New Perspectives: Sexuality in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas – Nicole von Germeten ; Sexual Hierarchies and Erotic Autonomy: Colonizing and Decolonizing Sex in the Caribbean – Nicole Bourbonnais ; Sexuality in Colonial Africa: Current Trends and New Directions – Corrie Decker ; On Endless Empires: Sexuality and Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa –Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yılmaz ; Sexuality and the Japanese Empire: A Contested History – Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci ; Transactions: Sex, Power, and Resistance in Colonial South and Southeast Asia – Kate Imy ; Settler Sexualities: Reproducing Nations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – Gregory D. Smithers; ; Part II: Constructing Race, Controlling Reproduction ; Sexual Intermixture, Blood Lineage, and Legal Disabilities in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica and the British Atlantic – Brooke N. Newman ; Conceiving Colonialism: Contraceptive Practices in Colonial and Post-Colonial Mexico – Nora E. Jaffary ; Demographic Anxieties, Pro-natalism and Governing Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire – Gülhan Balsoy; Settler Colonialism and the Canadian Child Welfare System – Laura C.L. Landertinger ; Imperial Wetnursing in Italian East Africa – Diana Garvin ; Race, Gender, Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, and Black Women’s Wombs – Françoise Vergès ; ; Part III: Sexuality in Law ; Negotiating Adultery in Colonial Quito – Chad Thomas Black ; Regulated Prostitution in French-Colonized Northern Vietnam and its Failures, 1920-1945 – Christina Firpo ; The League of Nations and Colonial Prostitution – Liat Kozma ; "In Consonance with their Sacred Laws": The Colonial Remaking of Religious Courts in Iraq – Sara Pursley ; "The Right to my Daughter": African Women, French Men, and Custody of Métis Children in Twentieth-Century French Colonial Africa – Rachel Jean-Baptiste ; Pining for Purity: Miscegenation, "Petty" Apartheid, and the South African Immorality (Amendment) Act (1950) – Susanne M. Klausen ; ; Part IV: Subjects, Souls, and Selfhood ; Single Women and Spiritual Capital: Sexuality and Devotion in Colonial Guatemala – Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara ; Mixed Marriage and the Embodiment of Law in French Algeria – Judith Surkis ; White French Women, Colonial Migration, and Sexual Labor between Metropole and Colony – Caroline Séquin ; Transgender History in Sinophone Taiwan – Howard Chiang ; Queer Sovereignties: Reimagining Sexual Citizenship from the Dutch Caribbean – Wigbertson Julian Isenia ; Colonialist Intimacies: Loving and Leaving on Lesbian Land – Katherine Schweighofer ; ; Part V: Pleasure and Violence ; A Spanish Notary in a Nahua Town in Post-Contact Mexico: A Case of Sexual and Cultural Liminality – Martin Nesvig ; A Trace of Law: State Building and Criminalization of Buggery in Jamaica – Tracy Robinson ; Gender, Sexual Violence, and the Herero Genocide – Elisa von Joeden-Forgey ; Violence, Anxieties, and the Making of Interracial Dangers: Colonial Surveillance and Interracial Sexuality in the Belgian Congo – Amandine Lauro ; Longing, Love, and Loss in Times of War: South Asian Sepoys on the Western Front – Santanu Das ; Sexual Restraint, Substitution, Transgression, and Extreme Violence across the Late-Colonial Dutch East Indies and Postcolonial Indonesia – Esther Captain ; ;