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Cosmopolitan Sexuality
Gender, Embodiments, Biopolitics in India

Name: Cosmopolitan Sexuality
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Author: Ahonaa Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Date Published: December 2022
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Cosmopolitan Sexuality articulates the ethnographic and anthropological studies of varied embodied projects in Indian metropolises. With particular reference to the city of Bombay, it draws evidences of gendered representations – their desires, appeal and aspirations to be and to express their sense of self. It attempts to establish arguments to a deconstructive notion of any fixation of identity categories and build a robust and complex understanding of sexual experiences, love, emotions and interpersonal relationships; an unusual way of local as well as global patterns that are culturally scathed in the contemporary new India. The book is relevant to contemporary embodiment studies – the invasive means of desiring corporeal reconstruction on one hand, and dress, ornamentation, and makeup on the other. Transgressive politics are discursively and materially constructed to their everydayness and their unique ways of re-representation. 'Health' is viewed in new dynamics of shared knowledges and communicative practices that has enabled building fresh arguments around community and public health, with new visions of the anthropologies of empowerment.
- Anthropological study of the popular transgender culture in contemporary Mumbai
- Conceptual clarity with strong ethnography
- Contemporary theory intersecting classical/continental theory
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‘This highly original anthropological study of transnormative sexualities in a major Indian city connects the most interesting aspects of the current theories of sexuality and gender with the extraordinary cosmopolitanisms which flourish in the cracks of global modernity. It will be of interest to scholars of gendered identities, urban poverty, aspirational subcultures and dissident modernities.' Arjun Appadurai, Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
‘This vivid and theoretically provocative book provides a compelling, sensitive portrait of contemporary gender liminal representations in the city of Bombay. Through beautifully rendered stories and incisive analyses, Cosmopolitan Sexuality illuminates the corporeal aesthetics, sexual desires, fluid gender expressions and aspirations for belonging pursued by hijra individuals in their everyday lives. An indispensable book for scholars of gender and sexuality in India and beyond.' Sarah Lamb, Brandeis University
‘Theoretically sophisticated yet full of ethnographic detail, this book is a major contribution on several levels - to our understanding of the changes sweeping through contemporary India, but also through much of the rest of the world. Globalisation, the author shows, is not just an external force but penetrates to the core of both the self, the body and the emotions. Individuals and groups who rebel against established norms of sexuality are redefining those very terms in so doing. The interplay between modernity and tradition expresses itself in the complex connections between desire, self- representation, and intimacy on the one hand and the wider impact of capitalism and the market economy on the other.’ Anthony Giddens, King's College London
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- Date Published: December 2022
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009276580
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Bioengineering, Beauty and Racial Sensibility
3. Contesting Violence, Constructing Power
4. Festival, Spectacle, Eroticism
5. Biopolitics and Biosocial Citizenship
6. Performative Participation, Sexual Health and Community Development
7. Cosmopolitanism: Rights, Citizenry and the Culture of Representation
8. Postscript
Glossary
Index.
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Ahonaa Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Ahonaa Roy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also a Tata Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge (2022). She has published widely on sexuality and sexual health, social medicine, sexuality studies, masculinity studies, embodiment and body studies and gender and subaltern studies. She edited the volume Gender, Sexuality Decolonization: South Asia in the World Perspective, published by Routledge in 2020.