London:
Zed Books
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2007
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333 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Menon, Nivedita |
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Issues in contemporary Indian feminism
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| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1842778692 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Having long talked about sexuality within the framework of sexual violence, recent challenges to womens movements and feminist theories have come from "transgressive" and marginalised sexualities. Menons volume focuses on these challenges, highlighting various voices for expression of desire. Most of the contributions are explorations of expressions of sexuality and desire that transgress the prescriptive institutions of marriage, family and heterosexual desire. The book is divided into five sections: Counter-hegemonies, Caste and Sexuality, Masculinities, Pleasure and Desire, and Campaign Documents. The last section is an important archive of 11 documents from various movements, which contextualise the academic postulates of some of the preceding essays. Sexuality and gender are both continuously created and recreated. One of the most significant challenges to present-day feminisms and womens movements is: how does one define the political category "woman"? This term is not defined by biology alone. In Southasia, for instance, it's important to include the complicated interrelations of gender with class, caste and community. Gender cannot be understood without questioning the norms of both compulsory heterosexuality and binary gender. Table of Contents: Series Note (RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN) * Acknowledgements * Introduction (NIVEDITA MENON) * I. COUNTER-HEGEMONIES: Outing Heteronormativity (NIVEDITA MENON) * Queer Struggles Around The Law (ARVIND NARRAIN) * Complicating Gender (ASHWINI SUKTHANKAR) * Rescaling Transnational "Queerdom" (PAOLA BACCHETTA) * Heteronormativity in Educational institutions (TARUN) * II. CASTE AND SEXUALITY: Marriage, Sexuality and Motherhood (SUGUNA RAMANATHAN) * III. MASCULINITIES: Invisible Men (RADHIKA CHOPRA) * Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity (LAWRENCE COHEN) * IV. PLEASURE AND DESIRE: Pleasure Me Safely, Can You? (RADHIKA CHANDIRAMANI) * On the Far side of Memory (N.LALITAMBIKA ANTARJANAM) * Lust for Life (J.DEVIKA) * Lustful Women, Elusive Lovers (PREM CHOWDHRY) * Drag King/Queen (GEORGINA L. MADDOX) * V. CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS: Womens Groups Oppose Ban On Dance-Bars * Report on Lesbian Meeting * Images on AIDS and Sexuality * Sexuality Minorities Fight Against Police Atrocities * Letter to the NHRC Opposing Medical Treatment of Homosexuality * Section 377 and Child Sexual Abuse * Resolution on Section 377 * Sexuality and Fundamentalism * Muslim Women and Sexuality * A Statement of Women in Prostitution. | |
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