Description: Colonialisms and Queer Politics provides a groundbreaking comparative analysis of empires and colonialities with respect to sexuality and gender diversity. Including contributions from an international team of authors, chapters focus on eleven empires shaped by Eurocentrism, starting from the fifteenth century, to explore how colonial racial hierarchies, gender norms, and heteronormativity have structured relations between colonizing and colonized societies. The chapters reveal extreme variation in the regulation of sexuality, gender, and race, and shed light on the impacts of religious difference across colonialisms. The chapters also investigate continuing colonialities, particularly their effects on contemporary governmental regulation and LGBTIQ+ activisms.
