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;;.