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Heteronormativity, passionate aesthetics and symbolic subversion in Asia / Saskia E. Wieringa, Abha Bhaiya and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana ; and with the assistance of Ambarien Al Qadar [and nine others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wieringa, Saskia, 1950- author.
- Series:
- Sussex library of Asian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minority women--Indonesia.
- Minority women.
- Minority women--India.
- Sex--Political aspects--Indonesia.
- Sex.
- Sex--Political aspects--India.
- Sex--Political aspects.
- India.
- Indonesia.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Brighton ; Chicago ; Toronto : Sussex Academic Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism.The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Researching heteronormativity
- Sexual politics, heteronormativity, passionate aesthetics and symbolic violence
- God's creatures : the public arena of sexuality
- (De)constructing happy Asian families
- Negotiating respectability and a "normal" family
- Reduced to mud : expulsion and repulsion
- Something divine : a satisfying sex life?
- Entertainers and soft butches : identities and subjectivities
- This crazy energy : symbolic subversion
- A house of my own : strategies for the future
- The sliding scales of heteronormativity and symbolic subversion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845195502
- 1845195507
- OCLC:
- 795177584
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