Durba Mitra Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought is an account of how ideas of deviant female sexuality, often named as the “prostitute,” became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India. NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality is licensed under a Creative Commons […]
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