Deviant Female Sexuality and Criminal Law in India

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In this episode of the P39A Podcast, Adrija Ghosh speaks to Dr. Durba Mitra, author of the book Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (2020). They talk about the idea of ‘deviant female sexuality’ that became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India, and continues to be used in contemporary India to regulate and control the lives and bodies of women and sexual minorities.