Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese and U.S. imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural, intellectual and political history, anthropology, law, gender and sexuality studies, and literary criticism, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism combines regional and historiographic overviews with detailed case studies, making it the key reference for up-to-date scholarship on the intimate dimensions of colonial rule. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into five parts: Directions in the Study of Sexuality and Colonialism Constructing Race, Controlling Reproduction Sexuality in Law Subjects, Souls, and Selfhood Pleasure and Violence Within these themes central issues, debates and problems are examined, joining regional and historiographic overviews with contemporary scholarship on sexuality and colonial cultures, making it the go-to reference work for research on the intimate dimensions of colonial rule. The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism is essential reading for students and researchers in gender, sexuality, race, global studies, world history, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.