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, and a critical account of the emergence of “age” as scientific and governmental object, crucial for upholding the rule of law, for governing intimate life, and for securing gender rights and social justice, in twentieth century India.
Tag: queer theory
Queer Encounters in the Garden
A popular 1912 hymn imagines a close encounter with Christ and reveals the queer possibilities within evangelical Protestant liturgy and devotion.
Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China
Qay identity and queer activism in contemporary China from a queer Marxist perspective.
