Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India

Herausgeber: Kumar, Pushpesh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores existing and emerging sexual cultures of contemporary India and the predicaments faced by abjected and sexual marginalities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781138553149
• ISBN-10: 113855314X
• Artikelnr.: 62230153

Autorenporträt

Pushpesh Kumar teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. His research focuses on queer movement, queer religion, transgender-mobilization, queer consumerism and Marxism and queer theory. He serves on the international advisory board of the Community Development Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. The Hegemonic and the Counter-hegemonic: Abjection,
Misogyny, Resistance and Sexual Agency within the 'Heteronormative' 1.
Sexuality and Unlettered Women: Images from Bhojpuri Folksongs 2. Nothing
Much Happened: Rethinking Heterosexual Middle-Class Adolescent Boys'
Romance in Mumbai 3. Body Politics and Marginality: Understanding the
Predicaments of Kalavanthulu 4. No Place for the Obscene: Debates on
Playboy Club in South Asia 5. Laughter and Abjection: The Politics of
Comedy in Malayalam Cinema 6. The Kiss of Love Protests: A Report on
Resistance to Abjection in Kerala Part 2. Glimpses from Contemporary Queer
India: Destabilizing/Altering/Transforming or Normativizing? 7.
Familiarizing the Unfamiliar in Marriage: The Case of Sodomy as a Ground
for Divorce 8. Risk and Pleasure: A Case for Queer Erotica 9. Finding
(Homo)Sexuality in the Genome: A Critique of Genetic Investigations on
Sexuality 10. A Life Worth Telling: Love and Suicide in Hijra Lives 11.
Family Beyond Blood and Marriage: Queer Intimacies and Personal Law 12. A
Brief Prehistory of Queer Freedom in the New India