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A question of silence? : the sexual economics of modern India / edited by Mary E. John and Janaki Nair.
LIBRA HQ1742 .Q84 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop (26th : 1996 : Madras Institute of Development Studies)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Hindu women.
- Social conditions.
- India.
- Hindu women--India--Social conditions.
- Women (Hindu law).
- Women--India--Cross-cultural studies.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 412 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Kali for Women, 1998.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a question of silence? / Mary E. John and Janaki Nair
- Unravelling the Kamasutra / Kumkum Roy
- Offences against marriage : negotiating custom in colonial Bengal / Samita Sen
- "Left to the imagination" : Indian nationalisms and female sexuality in Trinidad / Tejaswini Niranjana
- Reproductive bodies and regulated sexuality : birth control debates in early twentieth century Tamilnadu / Anandhi S.
- Comrades-in-arms : sexuality and identity in the contemporary revolutionary movement in Andhra Pradesh and the legacy of Chalam / U. Vindhya
- Sexuality and the film apparatus : continuity, non-continuity and discontinuity in Bombay cinema / Ravi Vasudevan
- Citizenship and its discontents / Susie Tharu
- Inventing Saffron history : a celibate hero rescues an emasculated nation / Uma Chakravarti
- Uneven modernites and ambivalent sexualities : women's constructions of puberty in costal Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu / Kalpana Ram
- On bodily love and hurt / V. Geetha
- Enforcing cultural codes : gender and violence in northern India / Prem Chowdhry
- Globalisation, sexuality and the visual field : issues and the non-issues for cultural critique / Mary E. John.
- Notes:
- "All the papers in this collection, except the introduction, were presented at the XXVI Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, 1-3 August 1996"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 8186706089
- OCLC:
- 41076701
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