Author: Nivedita Menon
Eminent Contributors/
Translator(s)/ Edito: Nivedita Menon
Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 333
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188965308
Description
While sexual violence is an area that is well mapped by feminist scholarship, this volume focuses on transgressive and marginalized
Sexualities.
It brings together writings on India that highlight the
transgression of norms – of heterosexuality, of feminine and masculine behaviour, of recognizably gendered bodies – that declare ungoverned desire to be illegitimate.
Sexualities also includes a selection of campaign documents from diverse sexuality movements in the country.
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 A ND 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
Women’s 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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