Family Ideals, Colonialism and Law

Review essay of Göran Therborn, Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900–2000 (New York: Routledge, 2004); Arland Thornton, Reading History Sideways: The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life (London: University of Chicago Press, 2005); Tamara Loos, Subject Siam: Family, Law and Colonial Modernity in Thailand (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006); Brett L. Shadle, “Girl Cases”: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890–1970 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006); and Mytheli Sreenivas, Wives, Widows, and Concubunes: the Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008)is peer reviewe