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.

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殖民法人身份的会计：来自大英帝国的新交叉历史

在对特刊的评论中，伯顿将这些论文置于 1980 年代和 1990 年代的学术研究以及最近关于同意年龄法的学术研究中。她指出了塑造这里收集的案例的模式——包括抽象和跨国流通的过程。她还指出了在研究各种合法帝国政权的学术研究中优先考虑性别和婚姻关系的利害关系。