Thomas Malthus and maternal bodies politic: gender, race, and empire

Development and Hope: Comments on Thomas McCarthy's Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development

Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya

Before the 1980s, the powerful link between empire and race was marginalised in British imperial history. The postcolonial 'turn' opened up new ways of exploring racial constructions of colonised subjects and stimulated debate over the extent to which representations of the colonised in colonial discourse underpinned imperial power. In Race and Empire, based on an AHRB/C-funded research project...

Bodies politic: disease, death and doctors in Britain 1650–1900

in the case ofRichard von Krafft-Ebing, it was by writing to sexologists with descriptions of sexual behaviour that challenged pathological interpretations. Other sexologists, such as Hirschfeld, were gay themselves, and so projected relatively positive images of homosexuality. This "gay-liberation" trend continued throughout the history of scientific writing about homosexuality. Either the par...

Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya

Before the 1980s, the powerful link between empire and race was marginalised in British imperial history. The postcolonial 'turn' opened up new ways of exploring racial constructions of colonised subjects and stimulated debate over the extent to which representations of the colonised in colonial discourse underpinned imperial power. In Race and Empire, based on an AHRB/C-funded research project...

Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya

Before the 1980s, the powerful link between empire and race was marginalised in British imperial history. The postcolonial 'turn' opened up new ways of exploring racial constructions of colonised subjects and stimulated debate over the extent to which representations of the colonised in colonial discourse underpinned imperial power. In Race and Empire, based on an AHRB/C-funded research project...