(Hi)Stories of Desire
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(Hi)Stories of Desire

Sexualities and Culture in Modern India

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(Hi)Stories of Desire

Sexualities and Culture in Modern India

About this book

(Hi)Stories ofDesire situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically and culturally produced landscapes of being, doing and desiring. The book draws upon multi-disciplinary frameworks of analysis - including history, anthropology, literary studies, queer studies and psychoanalysis - to provide a pan-Indian account of the making of sexual cultures. Based on original research, the chapters foreground sexuality as a significant site for the making of regional, national and personal modernities. The volume addresses the modern paradox where sexuality is assigned a central significance in human life and yet its study tends to remain unconnected from the political, religious, social and economic contexts that produce human subjectivity. It will be of interest to a wide range of readership, opening up the topic to complex yet accessible ways of understanding the culture of sexualities and the sexuality of culture.

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Yes, you can access (Hi)Stories of Desire by Rajeev Kumaramkandath,Sanjay Srivastava in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Images
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1: Politics of Prop Roots
  10. 2: Of Identities and Other Desires
  11. 3: The Stuttered Process of Subject Formation
  12. 4: Sexual Realism?
  13. 5: Sexualizing Kālā Pāni
  14. 6: Memories of a Queer Sexuality
  15. 7: Learning about Sex in Mumbai
  16. 8: Family Planning and the Masculinity of Nirodh Condoms in India
  17. 9: Women and Their Bodies
  18. 10: Tanjai Prakash
  19. 11: Hijra Intimacies and Inheritances
  20. Notes on Editors and Contributors
  21. Index