Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937 by Ishita Pande, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp xvi + 322, price not indicated.
Conversations on South Asia with Durba Mitra
Join us for the next Conversations on South Asia event to hear Durba Mitra discuss her book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Tuesday, April 6, 2021
https://dartgo.org/indiansexlife
Sponsored by: Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages, History Department, Society of Fellows, Women s Gender and Sexuality Studies
Intended Audience(s): Public Registration required.
How did deviant female sexuality become foundational to the colonial knowledge-production project? And how did the “prostitute” emerge as a key concept in attempts by British and elite Indian men to “know” India?
Durba Mitra (Harvard University) tackles these puzzles in her latest book, I