The influence of the Durham Report

Imperialism and sexual exploitation: A response to Ronald Hyam's ‘empire and sexual opportunity’

“…21 Strangely, however, in an otherwise meticulously footnoted article he does not mention where feminists contend this, partly no doubt because it is a misrepresentation of the 'feminist position', which in any case varies from feminist to feminist At the same time no feminist analysis that I am familiar with 'contends' for a minute that sexual interaction between European males and nonEuropeans was fundamentally undesirable: what was fundamentally undesirable was the sexual exploitation of Asians and Africans by their colonial masters.…”