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Sexual sites, seminal attitudes : sexualities, masculinities, and culture in South Asia /
Discussions on sexuality in the South Asian context have tended to focus largely on mens̀ preoccupations through notions such as s̀emen-anxiety.̀ Another restrictive framework is the excessive importance ascribed to religion in everyday life. The result has been a rather narrow debate on sexuality....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage,
2004.
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| Colección: | Studies on contemporary South Asia ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: semen, history, desire and theory / Sanjay Srivastava
- Colonial aversions and domestic desires: blood, race, sex and the decline of intimacy in early British India / Sudipta Sen
- Controlling the Ganymedes: the colonial gaze in J.R. Ackerly's Hindoo holiday / Zahid Chaudhary
- Theatrical transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati and Marathi theatres (1850-1940) / Kathryn Hansen
- Rekhti: impersonating the feminine in Urdu poetry / Carla Petievich
- Crossing 'lines' of subjectivity: the negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India / Gayatri Reddy
- A preliminary report on emerging gay geographies in Bangladore, India / Chandra S. Balachandran
- Emancipated bodies, embodying liberation: debating through Fire / Vikash N. Pandey
- Redrawing the Lakshman Rekha: gender differences and cultural constructions in youth sexuality in urban India / Leena Abraham
- 'Cheli-Beti' discourses of trafficking and constructions of gender, citizenship and nation in modern Nepal / Sushma Joshi
- Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices: the social shadow of AIDS and STD prevention in Nepal / Stacy Leigh Pigg and Linnet Pike
- Muscularity and its ramifications: mimetic male bodies in Indian mass culture / Kajri Jain
- Non-Gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures and a 'happy married life': masculine and sexual cultures in the metropolis / Sanjay Srivastava.