Queering India
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Author | : Ruth Vanita |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135305889 |
Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected topic. The topics are wide-ranging, considering film, literature, popular culture, historical and religious texts, law and other aspects of life in India. Specifically, the essays cover such issues as Deepa Mehta's recent and controversial film, Fire, which focused on lesbian relationships in India; the Indian penal code which outlaws homosexual acts; a case of same-sex love and murder in colonial India; homophobic fiction and homoerotic advertising in current day India; and lesbian subtext in Hindu scripture. All of the essays are original to the collection. Queering India promises to change the way we understand India as well as gay and lesbian life and sexuality around the world.
Author | : Ruth Vanita |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415929493 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Pushpesh Kumar |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000415880 |
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.
Author | : Rohit K. Dasgupta |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2018-03-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1474421180 |
Combines development theory with practice through a case study of the West African community of Tostan.
Author | : Kaustav Chakraborty |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1000288854 |
This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous communities from East and Northeast India, which are found to be significant repositories of gender fluidity and non-normative desires. Departing from the popular understanding that ‘Otherness’ results largely from undue exposure to Western permissiveness, the author reveals how minority sexualities actually have their roots in aboriginal indigenous cultures and do not necessarily constitute a mimicry of the West. The volume endeavours to demystify the politics behind such vindictive propagation to sensitize the queerphobic mainstream about the essential endogenous presence of the queer in the spaces that are aboriginal. Based on extensive interdisciplinary research, this book is a first of its kind in the study of indigenous queer narratives. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of queer studies, gender studies, tribal and indigenous studies, literature, cultural studies, postcolonialism, sociology, political studies and South Asian studies.
Author | : Rohit K. Dasgupta |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1474421199 |
Combines development theory with practice through a case study of the West African community of Tostan
Author | : Rohit K. Dasgupta |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351800574 |
The work argues that new media, social networking sites (SNS), both web and mobile, and related technologies do not exist in isolation, rather they are critically embedded within other social spaces. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, especially men's and masculinity studies, queer and LGBT studies, media and cultural studies, particularly new media and digital culture, sexuality and identity, politics, sociology & social anthropology, and South Asian studies.
Author | : S. Bhaskaran |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2004-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1403979251 |
Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts in small towns around India and the simultaneous evolution of the modern homophobia and lesbian NGOs. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization.
Author | : Naisargi N. Dave |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822353199 |
This book examines the creation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s through the early 2000s and explores the everyday practices that comprise queer activism in India.
Author | : Kaustav Chakraborty |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1000288951 |
This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous communities from East and Northeast India, which are found to be significant repositories of gender fluidity and non-normative desires. Departing from the popular understanding that ‘Otherness’ results largely from undue exposure to Western permissiveness, the author reveals how minority sexualities actually have their roots in aboriginal indigenous cultures and do not necessarily constitute a mimicry of the West. The volume endeavours to demystify the politics behind such vindictive propagation to sensitize the queerphobic mainstream about the essential endogenous presence of the queer in the spaces that are aboriginal. Based on extensive interdisciplinary research, this book is a first of its kind in the study of indigenous queer narratives. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of queer studies, gender studies, tribal and indigenous studies, literature, cultural studies, postcolonialism, sociology, political studies and South Asian studies.