Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kumar, Pushpesh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores existing and emerging sexual cultures of contemporary India and the predicaments faced by abjected and sexual marginalities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000415889
• Artikelnr.: 62056880

Autorenporträt

Pushpesh Kumar teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. His research focuses on queer movement, queer religion, transgender-mobilization, queer consumerism and Marxism and queer theory. He serves on the international advisory board of the Community Development Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. The Hegemonic and the Counter-hegemonic: Abjection,
Misogyny, Resistance and Sexual Agency within the 'Heteronormative' 1.
Sexuality and Unlettered Women: Images from Bhojpuri Folksongs 2. Nothing
Much Happened: Rethinking Heterosexual Middle-Class Adolescent Boys'
Romance in Mumbai 3. Body Politics and Marginality: Understanding the
Predicaments of Kalavanthulu 4. No Place for the Obscene: Debates on
Playboy Club in South Asia 5. Laughter and Abjection: The Politics of
Comedy in Malayalam Cinema 6. The Kiss of Love Protests: A Report on
Resistance to Abjection in Kerala Part 2. Glimpses from Contemporary Queer
India: Destabilizing/Altering/Transforming or Normativizing? 7.
Familiarizing the Unfamiliar in Marriage: The Case of Sodomy as a Ground
for Divorce 8. Risk and Pleasure: A Case for Queer Erotica 9. Finding
(Homo)Sexuality in the Genome: A Critique of Genetic Investigations on
Sexuality 10. A Life Worth Telling: Love and Suicide in Hijra Lives 11.
Family Beyond Blood and Marriage: Queer Intimacies and Personal Law 12. A
Brief Prehistory of Queer Freedom in the New India