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Unruly figures : queerness, sex work, and the politics of sexuality in Kerala / Navaneetha Mokkil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mokkil, Navaneetha, author.
- Series:
- Decolonizing feminisms.
- Decolonizing feminisms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--India--Kerala.
- Prostitution.
- Sex in mass media.
- Lesbianism--India--Kerala.
- Lesbianism.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala -- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment -- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS -- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness -- Living together, dying together: the politics of lesbian hauntings -- "What you think is fire": unspooled movements and suspended readings.
- Contents:
- Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala
- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment
- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS
- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness
- Living together, dying together: the politics of lesbian hauntings
- "What you think is fire": unspooled movements and suspended readings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295745558
- 029574555X
- OCLC:
- 1057241796
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