Passionate Modernity
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Passionate Modernity

Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Passionate Modernity

Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India

About this book

Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context.

This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publications and journals on sexology from the 1920s to the 1940s, and links Indian activities with those in other parts of the world. The author analyzes material that has thus far been outside the purview of scholarly studies, namely, 'footpath pornography', magazines such as Sexology Mirror (in Hindi), women's magazines dealing explicitly with sex and sexuality.

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Yes, you can access Passionate Modernity by Sanjay Srivastava in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge India
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780367176044
eBook ISBN
9781000084160
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Gender Studies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Contents
  8. List of Plates
  9. One Introduction: Sexual Swarajya, Debased Muslims and Uncontrollable Tribals: Subcontinental Sex-Questions
  10. Two Instruction for Utopia: ‘Sane Sex Living’, Eugenics and the Making of a Transnational Modernity in Early Twentieth-Centuiy India
  11. Three The Idea of Lata Mangeshkar: Hindu Sexuality, the Girl-Child, and Heterosexual Desire in the Time of the Five Year Plans
  12. Four The Masculinity of Dis-Location: Commodities, the Metropolis and the Sex-Clinics of Delhi and Mumbai
  13. Five Pedestrian Desires: Footpath Pornography and the Aesthetics of Fluid Spaces
  14. Six Threshold and Surplus Subjectivities: Sexology Darpan Makes Meanings in Hari Nagar
  15. Seven Among the Veg. Tacos and Baby Pizzas, Shekhar and Monica Make Silent, Unsatisfactory Love: Domesticating Sexuality
  16. Eight ‘A Rainbow of Wishes’: Tupperware, Female Sexuality, Home, and the World
  17. Nine Conclusion: Complicating ‘Sexuality’
  18. Index