Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
By (Author) Durba Mitra
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
17th March 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
History and Archaeology
History of ideas
Sociology
Sex and sexuality, social aspects
Gender studies, gender groups
306.70820954
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals-philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics-deployed id
Reviews
"Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association"
"Winner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies"
Author Bio
Durba Mitra is assistant professor of studies in women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.
