Talk:Mytheli Sreenivas

By Anirudha Patel

Mytheli Sreenivas is an Associate Professor at the Department of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University as of September 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests include Women's History, the History of Sexuality and the Family, Colonialism and Nationalism, the Cultural and Political Economy of Reproduction, and Modern South Asian History.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government in the context of BJP Government.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

Books

1. Sreenivas, Mytheli. Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India. Indiana University Press, 2008.

Journals

1. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Emotion, Identity, and the Female Subject: Tamil Women's Magazines in Colonial India, 1890-1940." Journal of Women's History, vol. 14, no. 4, 2003, pp. 59-82.
2. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Conjugality and Capital: Gender, Families, and Property under Colonial Law in India." The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 63, no. 4, 2004, pp. 937-960.
3. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Creating Conjugal Subjects: Devadasis and the Politics of Marriage in Colonial Madras Presidency." Feminist Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2011, pp. 63-92.
4. Sreenivas, Mytheli. Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India. University of Washington Press, 2021.
5. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Sexuality and Modern Imperialism." In A Global History of Sexuality: The Modern Era, 2014, pp. 57-88.
6. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Birth Control in the Shadow of Empire: The Trials of Annie Besant, 1877–1878." Feminist Studies, vol. 41, no. 3, 2015, pp. 509-537.
7. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Teaching about 'Other' Women: Developing a Global Perspective on Gender in the Classroom." Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, vol. 15, no. 1, 2004, pp. 28-39.
8. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Feminism, Family Planning and National Planning." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, 2021, pp. 313-328.
9. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Introduction: A Country of Her Making." Co-authored with A Bhardwaj Datta and U Sen. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, 2021, pp. 218-227.
10. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Women’s and Gender History in Modern India: Researching the Past, Reflecting on the Present." In Making Women’s Histories, 2013, pp. 161-184.
11. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Family and Modernity: New Perspectives on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Journal of Women's History, vol. 24, no. 1, 2012, pp. 188-197.
12. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Nationalizing Marriage in Tamil India, 1890s–1940s." University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
13. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice Introduction." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 34, no. 3, 2013, pp. VII-XIV.