Gender, sexuality, decolonization : South Asia in the world perspective / Edited by Ahonaa Roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roy, Ahonaa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minority culture--Political aspects--South Asia.

Sexual minority culture.

South Asian diaspora--Sexual behavior--Political aspects.

South Asian diaspora.

Sexual minority culture--South Asia--Religious aspects.

South Asian LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora by exploring culture, class, ethnicity, identity, intersectionality, migration, borders, diaspora, modernity and cosmopolitanism across various local, regional, and global contexts.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Endorsement Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Sexual politics in the global South Asia: Framing the discourse

Part I: Colonial knowledges and postcolonial multiplicities

Part II: Transnational migrations and diasporic linkages

Part III: Global economization of sexualities and gender transgressing politics

Conclusion

Notes

References

Part I: Colonial Knowledges and Postcolonial Multiplicities

Chapter 1: Religion, Ritual Power, Exclusion and Marginality: Gender-transgressive Shivashaktis in Telangana, Southern India

Shivashaktis, gender transgressive Shivashaktis and Dalit-Bahujan traditions

Becoming a Shivashakti

Claiming power: Ability to prognosticate and medico-ritual healings

Sexuality, precarity and marginality

Chapter 2: Uncertain Grammars, Ambiguous Desires: Towards a sexual politic of indeterminacy in Sri Lanka

Determining indeterminacy(?)

Dis/ambiguating South Asian sexualities

Erotic uncertainties

(In)conclusion

Chapter 3: Twenty-five years after Dominic D'Souza: What happens when your queer icon refuses to be?

The biopic that isn't

One India, many Indiannesses

History in the unmaking

The mechanics of dissemblance

Sexuality, or is it?

The person for the cause

A story untold

Acknowledgments

Chapter 4: The Iconography of Hindu(ized) Hijras: Idioms of hijra representation in Northern India

Queer anxieties, and the spectre of a (Hindu) middle-class sexuality politics

The real and imagined limits of transgender activism

Reading Laxmi, the celebrity hijra

Writing the memoir.

Pind Daan ceremony, corporeal practices and the politics of visibility

Select bibliography

Chapter 5: "A Normal Person Cannot Be Made Queer"1 : The immorality act (amendment) commission of 1968 in apartheid South Africa

Social, political and legal context

"Men at a party" and the law reform movement9

The 1968 commission14

Submissions to the commission19

Pro homosexuality

Against homosexuality

Sexual scripts, sexual lives and sexual stories

Compulsory heterosexuality and discourses of the nation

The effects of the law reform movement24

Part II: Transnational Migrations and Diasporic Linkages

Chapter 6: "I Want a Yaar ": Pakistani Muslim American gay men and transnational same-sex sexual cultures in the West

Serendipitous encounters: Finding/locating South Asian Muslim Americans

Research methods

Theorizing transnational same-sex sexual cultures

"I Want a Yaar": Transnational circulation of South Asian cultural scripts of homo-sociality

Yaar in South Asian cultural and literary contexts

Belonging in the global Muslim Ummah

Reinterpreting the Qur'an

Religious leaders and mediations of sexuality

Family relationships and being gay

Acknowledgment

Chapter 7: Decolonizing the Postcolonial Body in Diasporic Time and Space: South Asians in the Caribbean

The Postcolonial body

Memory and embodiment

Mapping as decolonial Praxis

Self-knowing through the spirit

Chapter 8: Intersectionality and South Asian Non-Normative Sexualities: The case of South Asian lesbians and bisexual women in the United Kingdom

Intracategorical intersectionality and contrasting narratives

Hajra-Sikh narrative

Family ties and bereavement.

The Importance of Indian culture and identity

Religious identity

Adeela-Hindu narrative

"Double life", Secrecy and self-monitoring around sexuality and mental ill health

Coming out

Fazana-Muslim narrative

Religion and sexuality

Culture and sexuality

Analysis of coming out

LGBT space

Chapter 9: Trans/Queer South Asian Diaspora in the United Kingdom: Whose "Regimes of the Normal" does "Queer" critique?

Part III: Global Economization of Sexualities and Gender Transgressing Politics

Chapter 10: Trans South: Practical bases for trans internationalism

Issues and responses

Income, work and poverty

Displacement and housing

Safety

Embodiment and health

Families and kinship

Religion

Respect

Political terrain: Agency, allies, opponents

Southern perspectives

In conclusion

Chapter 11: On the Limits and Possibilities of LGBTI Politics: Contextualizing socio-political violence and political transitions in South America

On strategy, method and terminology

Debates on transnational identities

An ethnographic scene and two life stories

Edward's story

Nadia's story

Back to Nadia's story

Chapter 12: Understanding Gender in Nepal: Concepts and practices

Who are third-gender people?

Acceptance and recognition: Some examples

Epics and religious beliefs

Why call them a "third"?

Social and cultural scenario of third-gender population in Nepal

How does the state deal with them in Nepal?

Legal position of third-gender people

Present position

Chapter 13: Operationalizing the "New" Pakistani transgender citizen: Legal gendered grammars and trans frames of feeling

Ethics of researcher and knowledge making.

Theorizing from and with the global South

2009-2018 laws (Unto ourselves)

Mediating "Trans" in Pakistan

Structures of feeling: Wajood and insaniyat

Chapter 14: The political economy of empowerment: Microfinance, middle class and the sexual subculture in contemporary Bangladesh

Microcredit and democratic participation of women

The rise of the middle class in Bangladesh

Sexuality, space and desire: Queer desirability

Hijras and democratic representation

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-000-33011-7