Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9777-1
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Studies on Contemporary South

Discussions on sexuality in the South Asian context have tended to focus largely on men`s preoccupations through notions such as `semen-anxiety`. Another restrictive framework is the excessive importance ascribed to religion in everyday life. The result has been a rather narrow debate on sexuality. By providing accounts of a myriad sites and meanings of sexuality, this remarkable volume broadens the debate on sexuality in South Asia.

It combines perspectives from history, anthropology, and cultural and literary studies to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of the cultures of, and the multiple meanings and contestations that gather around, masculinities and sexualities. The collection is unique in the breadth of its theoretical concerns; its focus on hitherto marginalized sexual identities; and its novel juxtapositions of analyses of colonial discourses with those of postcolonised modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Srivastava, Sanjay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Sanjay Srivastava Semen, History, Desire and Theory Colonial Aversions and Domestic Desires - Sudipta Sen Blood, Race, Sex and the Decline of Intimacy in Early British India Controlling the Ganymedes - Zahid Chaudhary The Colonial Gaze in J R Ackerley's Hindoo Holiday Theatrical Transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati and Marathi Theatres (1850-1940) - Kathryn Hansen Rekhti - Carla Petievich Impersonating the Feminine in Urdu Poetry Crossing 'Lines' of Subjectivity - Gayatri Reddy The Negotiation of Sexual Identity in Hyderabad, India A Preliminary Report on Emerging Gay Geographies in Bangalore - Chandra S Balachandran Emancipated Bodies/Embodying Liberation - Vikash N Pandey Debating through Fire Redrawing the Lakshman Rekha - Leena Abraham Gender Differences and Cultural Constructions in Youth Sexuality in Urban India 'Cheli-Beti' Discourses of Trafficking and Constructions of Gender, Citizenship and Nation in Modern Nepal - Sushma Joshi Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices - Stacy Leigh Pigg & Linnet Pike The Social Shadow of AIDS and STD Prevention in Nepal Muscularity and its Ramifications - Kajri Jain Mimetic Male Bodies in Indian Mass Culture Non-Gandhian Sexuality, Commodity Cultures and a 'Happy Married Life' - Sanjay Srivastava Masculine and Sexual Cultures in the Metropolis

Über Autor(innen)

Srivastava, Sanjay
Sanjay Srivastava is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. His key publications include Constructing Post-colonial India: National Character and the Doon School (Routledge, 1998), Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India (Routledge, 2007) and Entangled Urbanism. Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (OUP, 2014). He has edited and contributed to Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes, Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia (Sage, 2004) and Sexuality Studies (OUP, 2013). He is the co-author (with David Birch and Tony Schirato) of Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age (Palgrave, 2001).