Indian Sex Life (eBook)

Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Durba Mitra (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19702-9 (ISBN)

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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring 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 Indian Sex Life, 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.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, women's 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 women's sexuality. This logic continues to hold sway in present-day South Asia and the postcolonial world.Reframing the prostitute as a concept, Indian Sex Life 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Afsaneh Najmabadi • Ancient India • banerjee • caste • Cesare Lombroso • chastity • Chatterjee • Civilization • colonial India • Colonialism • Concubinage • Contagious Diseases Acts • courtesan • Crime • Criminal Law • Culture of India • Deviance (sociology) • Endogamy • episteme • eroticism • ethnography • Ethnology • Eugenics • Exclusion • Explanation • Fallen Woman • Forensic Science • Gender Role • Government of India • Harvard University • Herbert Spencer • hermeneutics • Hindu • Hindu Law • Historiography • Human female sexuality • Ideology • Inception • indian penal code • India office • Indology • infanticide • Islamic marital practices • Knowledge Economy • kolkata • Literature • Masculinity • Medical jurisprudence • Modernity • monogamy • Morality • narrative • National Archives of India • Objectivity (science) • obscenity • Pathologica • Patriarchy • Perversion • Philology • Political Philosophy • pollution • Positivism • Procuring (prostitution) • progressivism • Promiscuity • Prostitution • Prostitution in India • prostitution law • Publication • Puranas • racial hierarchy • Sanskrit • sex life • Sexology • sexual desire • Sexual norm • Sexual Violence • Shame • Short Story • social change • Social Exclusion • Social fact • social issue • Social Practice • Social Science • Social Status • social stigma • Social Theory • Society • Sociology • sodomy • South Asia • Sultana's Dream • Tanika Sarkar • Testimonial • treatise • widow • Women in Islam • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19702-4 / 0691197024
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19702-9 / 9780691197029