text: [16] The gender entrapment of neoliberal development is a component of the more fundamental sexual politics of Western developmentalism. The subordination of women, sexual violence, and the expropriation of the land under the rubric of "development" are entwined as a core part of the international system of domination and hegemony in the post-colonial era. Greg Thomas summarizes Rodney's key contributions for radical-critical thought on the legacy of European conquest in Africa by pointing to how the "presuppositions of political-economic ‘development' and its sexual-erotic politics of ‘civilization'" constitute the generalized structure of white supremacy's post-colonial lexicon. Rodney's scrutiny of development discourse reveals the sexual subtext embedded in its basic formulations in three ways. First, he recognizes that underdevelopment and development act as "virtual moral categories" (Rodney 1972: 3). Thomas notes that the supposed lack of morality projected onto the underdeveloped, the colonized, and the African are "projected foremost with regard to sexuality, which is to say, a supposed sexual morality or immorality" (Thomas 2010: 152). Second, Rodney rejects the euphemism of "developing" countries, instead calling attention to the active underdevelopment of Africa by Western empire by showing how "developing" implies that an individual, a country or a racial group is "underdeveloped" "mentally, physically, morally, or in any other respect" (Rodney 1972: 14). Third, Rodney identifies the "social and socio-sexual politics of family organization" underwriting Western capital's attempt to sublimate alternative modes of production by rendering culture in economically reductionist terms (Thomas 2010: 153).