(Hi)Stories of Desire
Sexualities and Culture in Modern India
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- Editors:
- Rajeev Kumaramkandath, Christ University, Bangalore
- Sanjay Srivastava, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
- Date Published: February 2020
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108494410
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(Hi)Stories of Desire situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically and culturally produced landscapes of being, doing and desiring. The book draws upon multi-disciplinary frameworks of analysis - including history, anthropology, literary studies, queer studies and psychoanalysis - to provide a pan-Indian account of the making of sexual cultures. Based on original research, the chapters foreground sexuality as a significant site for the making of regional, national and personal modernities. The volume addresses the modern paradox where sexuality is assigned a central significance in human life and yet its study tends to remain unconnected from the political, religious, social and economic contexts that produce human subjectivity. It will be of interest to a wide range of readership, opening up the topic to complex yet accessible ways of understanding the culture of sexualities and the sexuality of culture.
Read more- The essays in this volume take into consideration multiple paradigms of analysis required for an understanding of sexuality
- Presents a pan-Indian panorama of experiences and discourses of sexuality; the introduction theorises the volume in light of other works and provides a rich reading experience
- Attempts to move away from standard postcolonial assumptions regarding sexuality and modernity in the Indian context
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- Date Published: February 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108494410
- length: 255 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 155 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: sexuality and sexualities Sanjay Srivastav and Rajeev Kumaramkandath
1. Politics of prop roots: beyond 'the repressive hypothesis' Anup Dhar
2. Of identities and other desires: thinking about sexualities Anirban Das
3. The stuttered process of subject formation: a sex worker's experiments with narration Navaneetha Mokkil
4. Sexual realism? (hetero) sexual excess and the birth of obscenity in Malayalam literature Rajeev Kumaramkandath
5. Sexualizing Kālā Pāni Akshaya K. Rath
6. Memories of a queer sexuality: revisiting two 'Toto' folk tales Kaustav Chakraborty
7. Learning about sex in Mumbai: rethinking the 'knowledge gap' debate in sexuality education Ketaki Chowkhani
8. Family planning and the masculinity of Nirodh condoms in India Sayantani Sur
9. Women and their bodies: menstruation and the construction of sexuality Arunima Deka
10. Tanjai Prakash: between desire and labour Kiran Keshavmurthy
11. Hijra intimacies and inheritances Brinda Bose
Contributors
Index.
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