Vrushali Patil is associate professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. She has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Theory, Signs, Theory and Society, and Gender & Society, among other journals, and is author of Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations: Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Where Is the Transnational (and the Imperial)?1. The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect2. The Biopolitics of Binary Bodies: Considering Scale, Race, and Empire3. The Special Oriental Vice, the Savage Vice, and the Sexual Furor: Racial-Imperial Webs and the Invention of “Modern” Sexuality4. The Reordering of Empire and the American Invention of GenderConclusion: Locating the Transnational and the ImperialNotesBibliographyIndex

WINNER OF THE 2024 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SEXUALITIES SECTIONHONORABLE MENTION, 2024 BARRINGTON MOORE BOOK AWARD, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY SECTION"Singular and groundbreaking! Webbed Connectivities undercuts U.S. sociology’s investments in colonial legacies, epistemologies, and categories. Vrushali Patil brilliantly shows that gender and sexuality are neither universal nor western categories but are, instead, products of intricate transnational webs of racial and imperial entanglements. The eye-opening research and piercing arguments make it impossible to return to the business of gender and sexuality (and sociology) as usual."-Jyoti Puri, author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India"Vrushali Patil has written an historically informed and theoretically rich text that will transform how global and transnational sociologists think about the intersection of sexuality, race, and empire. Through careful historical study and nuanced theoretical engagement, Webbed Connectivities challenges many of our extant concepts while offering a path forward for new and exciting work."-Zine Magubane, Boston College "Vrushali Patil's Webbed Connectivities analyzes how empire occupies the concepts that we use to think gender and sexuality. In doing so, the book provincializes both those concepts and the procedures that make up the sociology of sex and gender. May the field of sociology learn this book's lessons and learn them well."-Roderick A. Ferguson, author of One-Dimensional Queer