Webbed connectivities : the imperial sociology of sex, gender, and sexuality / Vrushali Patil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Where Is the Transnational (and the Imperial)? -- The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect -- The Biopolitics of Binary Bodies: Considering Scale, Race, and Empire -- The Special Oriental Vice, the Savage Vice, and the Sexual Furor: Racial-Imperial Webs and the Invention of "Modern" Sexuality -- The Reordering of Empire and the American Invention of Gender -- Conclusion: Locating the Transnational and the Imperial.

"Webbed Connectivities offers a global historical sociology that reembeds the United States within histories of empire, situating the emergence of northern and U.S.-based concepts and frameworks squarely within these histories. It explores the theoretical spaces that spotlighting imperial hierarchies within knowledge production might open, including making productive and essential connections across sites of the global south and north"-- Provided by publisher.