Durba Mitra

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organise modern society in India. During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals—philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics—deployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In Indian Sex Life, Durba Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality,...

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present. Beginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonising world offered new visions of liberation that centred the ideas and lives of women. Galvanised by International Women’s Year in 1975 and the UN’s Decade of Women, Third World...