A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I: Transnational Erotics: State, Capital, and the Decolonization of Desire
1. Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: Feminism, Tourism, and the State in the Bahamas 21
2. Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism 66
Part II: Maps of Empire, Old and New
3. Whose New World Order? Teaching for Justice 91
4. Anatomy of a Mobilization 117
5. Transnationalism, Sexuality, and the State: Modernity's Traditions at the Height of Empire 181
Part III. Dangerous Memory: Secular Acts, Sacred Possession
6. Remembering This Bridge Called My Back, Remembering Ourselves 725
7. Pedagogies of the Sacred: Making the Invisible Tangible 287
Notes 333
Bibliography 373
Index 395