Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires, by Julie Peakman

Book of the week: there’s something for everyone in this provocative study of sex, power and conflict, says Joanna Lewis

Published on
January 16, 2020
Last updated
January 16, 2020
Joanna Lewis
Ferdinand Roybet, Odalisque (La Sultane), c. 1875
Source: The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Sultanas of swing: the book has a serious message – at the heart of all empire-building is a form of sex culture that varies according to time, place and people’s experience of it

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Print headline: Empire with its trousers down

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