Mytheli Sreenivas is Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. Her research interests include women’s history, the history of sexuality and the family, colonialism and nationalism, and the cultural and political economy of reproduction. She is the author of Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India, awarded the Joseph Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences by the American Institute of Indian Studies.