Buch
Monografie
Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India
Herausgegeben von:
Pushpesh Kumar
New Delhi:
Routledge India
,
2022
,
256 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Pushpesh Kumar |
| Jahr: | 2022 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This volume explores existing and emerging sexual cultures of contemporary India and the predicaments faced by abjected and sexual marginalities. It traces the sexual politics within popular culture, literary genres, advertisement, consumerism, globalizing cities, social movements, law, scientific research, the Hijra community life, (alternative) families and kinship and sites that define the cultural other whose sexual practices or identities fall beyond normative moral conventions. The chapters examine a range of connected sociological and political issues including questions of agency, judgments around intimate sexual relationships, the role of the state, popular understandings of adolescent romance, notion of legitimacy and stigma, moral policing and resistance, body politics and marginality, representations in popular and folk culture, sexual violence and freedom, problems with historiography, structural inequalities, queer erotica, gay consumerism, Hijra suicides and marriage and divorce. The volume also proposes certain transformative possibilities towards envisioning and (re)scripting sexual equalities. This interdisciplinary book will be important for those interested in sexuality studies, queer studies, gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, law, history, literature and Global South studies as well as policymakers, civil society activists and nongovernmental organizations working in the area. *** *** ToC *** Foreword By: Radhika Chopra *** Introduction By: Pushpesh Kumar *** Sexuality and Unlettered Women: Images from Bhojpuri Folksongs By: Asha Singh *** Nothing Much Happened: Rethinking Heterosexual Middle-Class Adolescent Boys’ Romance in Mumbai By: Ketaki Chowkhani *** Body Politics and Marginality: Understanding the Predicaments of Kalavanthulu By: Asima Jena *** No Place for the Obscene: Debates on Playboy Club in South Asia By: Pranoo Deshraju and Pushpesh Kumar *** Laughter and Abjection: The Politics of Comedy in Malayalam Cinema By: Tony Sebastian *** The Kiss of Love Protests: A Report on Resistance to Abjection in Kerala By: J. Devika *** Familiarizing the Unfamiliar in Marriage: The Case of Sodomy as a Ground for Divorce By: Saptarshi Mandal *** Risk and Pleasure: A Case for Queer Erotica By: Brinda Bose *** Finding (Homo)Sexuality in the Genome: A Critique of Genetic Investigations on Sexuality By: Sayantan Datta *** A Life Worth Telling: Love and Suicide in Hijra Lives By: Meghana Rao *** Family Beyond Blood and Marriage: Queer Intimacies and Personal Law By: Chayanika Shah *** A Brief Prehistory of Queer Freedom in the New India By: Oishik Sircar | |
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