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2836737Indian Sex Lifehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/indian-sex-life-9780691197029/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2236476/452925b7-ceba-4cd8-9413-e8aa77b53986.jpg?v=638383697399870000546759MXNPrinceton University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India</strong></p><p>During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectualsphilologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social criticsdeployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In <em>Indian Sex Life</em>, Durba Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society.</p><p>Bringing together vast archival materials from diverse disciplines, Mitra reveals that deviant female sexuality was critical to debates about social progress and exclusion, caste domination, marriage, widowhood and inheritance, womens performance, the trafficking of girls, abortion and infanticide, industrial and domestic labor, indentured servitude, and ideologies about the dangers of Muslim sexuality. British authorities and Indian intellectuals used the concept of the prostitute to argue for the dramatic reorganization of modern Indian society around Hindu monogamy. Mitra demonstrates how the intellectual history of modern social thought is based in a dangerous civilizational logic built on the control and erasure of womens sexuality. This logic continues to hold sway in present-day South Asia and the postcolonial world.</p><p>Reframing the prostitute as a concept, <em>Indian Sex Life</em> overturns long-established notions of how to write the history of modern social thought in colonial India, and opens up new approaches for the global history of sexuality.</p>...2772943Indian Sex Life546759https://www.gandhi.com.mx/indian-sex-life-9780691197029/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2236476/452925b7-ceba-4cd8-9413-e8aa77b53986.jpg?v=638383697399870000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20209780691197029_W3siaWQiOiJjNzZhNjAyOS0wYzk0LTQ1MTYtODY1Ny04NzgwOTJiOTdmZDYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjc0MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjIwNywic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo1MzMsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTEyLTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9780691197029_<p><strong>How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India</strong></p><p>During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectualsphilologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social criticsdeployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In <em>Indian Sex Life</em>, Durba Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society.</p><p>Bringing together vast archival materials from diverse disciplines, Mitra reveals that deviant female sexuality was critical to debates about social progress and exclusion, caste domination, marriage, widowhood and inheritance, womens performance, the trafficking of girls, abortion and infanticide, industrial and domestic labor, indentured servitude, and ideologies about the dangers of Muslim sexuality. British authorities and Indian intellectuals used the concept of the prostitute to argue for the dramatic reorganization of modern Indian society around Hindu monogamy. Mitra demonstrates how the intellectual history of modern social thought is based in a dangerous civilizational logic built on the control and erasure of womens sexuality. This logic continues to hold sway in present-day South Asia and the postcolonial world.</p><p>Reframing the prostitute as a concept, <em>Indian Sex Life</em> overturns long-established notions of how to write the history of modern social thought in colonial India, and opens up new approaches for the global history of sexuality.</p>9780691197029_Princeton University Presslibro_electonico_1240fbc2-dd20-3ba9-b497-b166ab15c11e_9780691197029;9780691197029_9780691197029Durba MitraInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/princetonup-epub-5a249948-b16f-4ef8-9708-dfe88c9d726a.epub2020-01-07T00:00:00+00:00Princeton University Press