"The book documents intimacy vis-à-vis the global oil industry to remind us of how desire, racism, and sex continue to operate via offshore attachments well after the bust of the oil industry, e.g., in the current arrangements and organization of the tourism and leisure industry and in the Caribbean diaspora in Europe. It does so in an accessible form, through careful discourse and archival analysis, a Black feminist sensitivity, and the vantage point of two small islands in the Caribbean."
— The Americas
"The author uses the understudied case study of the oil industry in the midcentury Dutch Caribbean to write a fascinating story of interest to a wide variety of scholars focused on the history of energy and fossil fuels, empire, capitalism, gender and sexuality, Europe, and the Caribbean and Latin America."
— American Historical Review
"Chelsea Schields has written a fascinating account that documents how international oil companies manipulated sexual desire and race relations to control a transnational labor force in the Dutch Antilles. She convincingly argues that sex and race are central to understanding the organization of labor in the oil industry. The work also addresses the demise of the oil industry, immigration to the metropole, the racist tropes Afro-Caribbean people faced, and efforts by radical activists who imagined a different social reality."—Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
"Offshore Attachments is deeply original, bringing together a wide range of sources and analytical perspectives to unearth the critical role of the Caribbean in the development of the global energy system and the importance of women’s sexual and reproductive labor to the oil economy. This is a fantastic work of scholarship that will undoubtedly make an impact in multiple fields."⏤Nicole Bourbonnais, author of Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970
"The very premise of the book—the linkage between oil and sex, the latter broadly conceived—is novel, innovative, engaging, and even transgressive at times, since Schields reads with and against the grain of existing studies. Her prose incorporates a diverse body of sources in a cohesive narrative structure that moves forward and backward in time and across space with both clarity and grace."—Jennifer L. Foray, author of Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands
