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A question of silence : the sexual economies of modern India / Janaki Nair & Mary E. John (eds.)
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop (26th : 1996 : Madras Insitute of Development Studies)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Women.
- Sex role.
- Sex customs.
- India.
- Social conditions.
- Sex customs--India--Congresses.
- Sex role--India--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 412 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Has there been a "conspiracy of silence" regarding sexuality in India, be it within social movements or as a focus of scholarship? This book interrogates this assumption in order to thematize a crucial field. From unraveling the Kamasutra (the text) to investigating KamaSutra (the condom) the volume includes essays on how sexuality has been framed by the law, within social movements, or has been the site for patrolled caste, ethnic, or gender identities. Other essays analyze cinematic, televisual, and literary representations of sexuality. Taken as a whole, this book makes room for more wide-ranging approaches for tackling the sexual economies of desire and violence among men and women in modern India.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A question of silence? The sexual economies of modern India / 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 modernities 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:
- Papers presented at the 26th Inter Disciplinary Research Methodology Workshop held at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, August, 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1856498913
- 1856498921
- OCLC:
- 44603019
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