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Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age
By: Ishita Pande
Podcast Interview
Ishita Pande and Kristine Alexander discuss Pande's book, Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937. You can listen here. Other episodes of the SHCY podcast are available at our podcast website, or you can subscribe on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
Ishita Pande is Associate Professor of History, cross-appointed to Gender studies at Queen’s University. Kristine Alexander is Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge.
About Ishita Pande
Ishita Pande is Associate Professor of History, cross-appointed to Gender studies at Queen’s University. She is the author of Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire (2010) and Sex, law, and the politics of age: child marriage in India, 1891-1937 (2020). Her work exploring the productive intersection between the history of childhood and the history of gender and sexuality has appeared in several journals including the American Historical Review, Gender and History, and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. She continues to research and write on childhood and age across distinct legal regimes.
This post is part of the SHCY Featured Books series, which provides conversations about important contributions to the history of childhood and youth.