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Ashwini Tambe, Editorial Director
Ashwini Tambe is Director of WGSS and Professor of History and WGSS at
George Washington University. Dr. Tambe is a scholar of transnational
feminist theory and South Asian history who studies the relationship
between law, gender, and sexuality. Much of her work focuses on how South
Asian societies regulate sexual practices. Her 2009 book Codes of
Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay (University
of Minnesota Press) traces how law-making and law-enforcement practices
shaped the rise of the city's red light district. Her 2019 book Defining
Girlhood in India: A Transnational Approach to Sexual Maturity Laws (University
of Illinois Press) explores how the expectation of sexual innocence is
distributed in uneven ways for girls across class and caste groups. Both
books examine the direction and flow of transnational influences. Her
volume Transnational Feminist Itineraries (Duke
University Press 2021, co-edited with Millie Thayer) features essays by
leading gender studies scholars confronting authoritarianism and religious
and economic fundamentalism. Her articles appear in Women’s Studies
Quarterly (2022), Feminist Formations (2021), American Historical
Review (2020), and South Asia (2020), among others. In 2018, she
received a Graduate Mentor of the Year award from the University of
Maryland. Her research has received support from the Fulbright program,
American Institute for India Studies, NEH, and SSHRC.
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