The politics of forbidden liaisons: civilization, miscegenation, and other perversions. From: Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

 
Should we not scrutinize the role of sexual domination in warfare and 
war's particularly repugnant expression, conquest, before we giddily 
salute the so-called civilization Europeans introduced into this 
hemisphere some five hundred years ago? 
Stephanie Wood, "Sexual Violation in the Conquest of the 
Americas" (1) 

In this essay, I trace the evolving politics of sexuality in North America and its connections to the expropriation of resources from oppressed populations in what has become the United States of America. To help illustrate the evolution of the politics of sexuality ...