Gender, sexuality, decolonization : South Asia in the world perspective /

"This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora. It reconceives sexual representation from the point of view of the theoretical, political and empirical trajectories of decolonization, provi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Roy, Ahonaa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, [2021]
Temas:
Sexual minority culture > Political aspects > South Asia.
Sexual minority culture > South Asia > Religious aspects.
South Asian diaspora > Sexual behavior > Political aspects.
Sexual minorities > South Asia > Social conditions.
Gender-nonconforming people > South Asia > Social conditions.
Homophobia > Political aspects > South Asia.
Transphobia > Political aspects > South Asia.
South Asian diaspora > Social conditions.
Sexual minority immigrants > Social conditions.
Postcolonialism.
Queer theory.
Sud-Asiatiques > Pays étrangers > Sexualité > Aspect politique.
Minorités sexuelles > Asie méridionale > Conditions sociales.
Transphobie > Aspect politique > Asie méridionale.
Sud-Asiatiques > Pays étrangers > Conditions sociales.
Postcolonialisme.
Théorie queer.
Culture des minorités sexuelles > Aspect politique > Asie méridionale.
Culture des minorités sexuelles > Asie méridionale > Aspect religieux.
postcolonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Postcolonialism
Queer theory
South Asia
Essay
Case Reports
essays.
Case studies
Essays
Essays.
Case studies.
Essais.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Colonial knowledges and postcolonial multiplicities. Chapter 1. Religion, ritual power, exclusion and marginality: Gender-transgressive Shivashaktis in Telangana, Southern India / Pushpesh Kumar and Archana Rao M. ; Chapter 2. Uncertain grammars, ambiguous desires: Towards a sexual politic of indeterminacy in Sri Lanka / Themal Ellawala ; Chapter 3. Twenty-five years after Dominic D'Souza : What happens when your queer icon refuses to be? / R. Benedito Ferrão ; Chapter 4. The iconography of Hindu(ized) hijras: Idioms of hijra representation in Northern India / Appita Phukan Biswas ; Chapter 5. "A normal person cannot be made queer" : The immorality act (amendment) commission of 1968 in apartheid South Africa / Vasu Reddy
  • 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 / Ahmed Afzal ; Chapter 7. Decolonizing the postcolonial body in diasporic time and space : South Asians in the Caribbean / Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan ; Chapter 8. Intersectionality and South Asian Non-Normative Sexualities : The case of South Asian lesbians and bisexual women in the United Kingdom / Anna Fry, Surya Monro, Vicki Smith ; Chapter 9. Trans/queer South Asian diaspora in the United Kingdom : Whose "Regimes of the Normal" does "Queer" critique? / Shamira A. Meghani
  • Part III. Global economization of sexualities and gender transgressing politics. Chapter 10. Trans south : Practical bases for trans internationalism / Raewyn Connell ; Chapter 11. On the limits and possibilities of LGBTI politics : Contextualizing socio-political violence and political transitions in South America / José Fernando Serrano-Amaya ; Chapter 12. Understanding gender in Nepal : Concepts and practices / Gyanu Chhetri ; Chapter 13. Operationalizing the "new" Pakistani transgender citizen : Legal gendered grammars and trans frames of feeling / Sara Shroff ; Chapter 14. The political economy of empowerment : Microfinance, middle class and the sexual subculture in contemporary Bangladesh / Ahonaa Roy.

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