Sexual sites, seminal attitudes : sexualities, masculinities, and culture in South Asia / editor, Sanjay Srivastava.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Srivastava, Sanjay, 1960-

Series:

Studies on contemporary South Asia ; 4.

Studies on contemporary South Asia ; no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex customs--South Asia.

Sex customs.

Sex customs--India.

Masculinity--South Asia.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--India.

Men--South Asia--Sexual behavior.

Men.

Men--India--Sexual behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The writers of these essays argue that in societies undergoing rapid change, the construction of sexuality and the discourses that surround it, have a fundamental connection with an entire gamut of processes with which individuals must engage.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Colonial Aversions and Domestic Desires; Controlling the Ganymedes; Theatrical Transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati and Marathi Theatres (1850 -1940); Rekhti; Crossing 'Lines' of Subjectivity; A Preliminary Report on Emerging Gay Geographies in Bangalore, India; Emancipated Bodies/Embodying Liberation; Redrawing the Lakshman Rekha; 'Cheli-Beti' Discourses of Trafficking and Constructions of Gender, Citizenship and Nation in Modern Nepal; Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices; Muscularity and its Ramifications

Non-Gandhian Sexuality, Commodity Cultures and a 'Happy Married Life'About the Editor; About the Series Editor andthe Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612425264

9789351500094

9351500098

9788132112693

8132112695

9781282425262

1282425269

9788132103844

813210384X

OCLC:

655643912