Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.

In Sexual States Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the crea

Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history. The last few dec

Governing Sexuality explores issues of sexual citizenship and law reform in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe today. Across western and eastern Europe,l

This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance.