Accounting for Colonial Legal Personhood: New Intersectional Histories from the British Empire

摘要

In this comment on the special issue, Burton situates the essays in the scholarship of 1980s and 1990s as well as very recent scholarship on age of consent laws. She notes patterns - including processes of abstraction and transnational circulation - that shaped the cases gathered here. She points as well to the stakes of prioritizing gender and conjugality in scholarship on legal imperial regimes of all kinds.