Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.
NOTCHES on the Bookshelf
Esther Newton’s Butch Career
I love reading and writing stories but, until my memoir, most have been about other people.
Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier
How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture
Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.
The Brothel of Pompeii
Pompeii’s brothel is the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity.
The Beauty and the Terror
The Italian Renaissance was far stranger and darker than many of us realise, and that sex and sexuality played an important role in this unsavoury side of the sixteenth century.
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand
New Zealand’s teenagers embraced romantic and sexual possibilities, and their lives tell of wider social attitudes to morality and respectability
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