🔥Hot off the press!!🔥 by Sophie Rose and myself, on how & why the Dutch East India Co's racial-sexual repression served its bottom line in Asia and boomeranged back to Europe where it co-constituted the Dutch state and modern 'gay identity' open access: academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-... #QueerHistory
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The VOC’s “Dirty Work”: sodomy prosecutions and the Dutch East India Company’s sexual–moral order from the Indies to the Dutch Republic, 1600–1730
Abstract. This article examines sodomy prosecutions by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows t
