| Description |
1 online resource (410 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies on contemporary South Asia ; no. 4
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Studies on contemporary South Asia ; 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. 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 mul. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- South Asia.
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Sex customs. |
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South Asia. |
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Sex customs -- India.
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India. |
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Masculinity -- South Asia.
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Masculinity. |
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Masculinity -- India.
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Men -- Sexual behavior -- South Asia.
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Men -- Sexual behavior. |
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Men -- Sexual behavior -- India.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Subject |
Sexual practices. |
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Men. |
| Added Author |
Srivastava, Sanjay, 1960-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sexual sites, seminal attitudes. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2004 (DLC) 2003016651 (OCoLC)52799639 |
| ISBN |
9788132103844 (electronic book) |
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813210384X (electronic book) |
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9788132112693 (ebook) |
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8132112695 (ebook) |
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0761997776 (U.S. ; cloth) |
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0761997784 (U.S. ; paper) |
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9780761997788 (U.S. ; paper) |
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9780761997771 (U.S. ; cloth) |
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8178292645 |
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9788178292649 |
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