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Cultures of ageing and ageism in India / edited by Paromita Chakravarti and Kaustav Bakshi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging--India.
- Aging.
- Ageism--India.
- Ageism.
- Older people--Care--India.
- Older people.
- Older people--India--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Paromita Chakravarti (D.Phil, Oxon.) is Professor of English, and has been the Director of the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She teaches Renaissance drama, women's writing, sexuality and film studies and introduced the first Masters course in Queer Studies in India (2005). She has led national and international projects on gender in textbooks, sex education, women's higher education, homeless women, HIV and women and single women. Her books include Women Contesting Culture (Stree, 2012) Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas (Routledge, 2018) and Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare (Routledge, 2020). Her book Bengal and Italy: Transcultural Encounters from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Early 21st Century is forthcoming from Routledge. Kaustav Bakshi is Associate Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University. A Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow, he has worked on Sri Lankan War Literature and sexualities for his doctoral programme. An LGBTIQ+ activist, he has published in several national and international journals, such as, South Asian Review (2012), Postcolonial Text (2015), New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (2013), South Asian History and Culture (2015, 2017, 2021, & 2022), South Asian Popular Culture (2018), and Cultural Trends (2023) on queer politics, literature and culture. His latest books include, Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender, Art (Routledge 2015), Queer Studies: Texts, Contexts, Praxis (Orient Blackswan, 2019) and Popular Cinema in Bengal: Star, Genre, Public Cultures (Routledge, 2021).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cultures of ageing and ageism in India
- ISBN:
- 9780429352560
- 0429352565
- 9781003852186
- 1003852181
- 9781003852230
- 1003852238
- Publisher Number:
- 40032212760
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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