(Hi)Stories of Desire

Sexualities and Culture in Modern India
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-49441-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

(Hi)Stories of Desire 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumaramkandath, Rajeev

Srivastava, Sanjay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: sexuality and sexualities Sanjay Srivastav and Rajeev Kumaramkandath; 1. Politics of prop roots: beyond 'the repressive hypothesis' Anup Dhar; 2. Of identities and other desires: thinking about sexualities Anirban Das; 3. The stuttered process of subject formation: a sex worker's experiments with narration Navaneetha Mokkil; 4. Sexual realism? (hetero) sexual excess and the birth of obscenity in Malayalam literature Rajeev Kumaramkandath; 5. Sexualizing Kala Pani Akshaya K. Rath; 6. Memories of a queer sexuality: revisiting two 'Toto' folk tales Kaustav Chakraborty; 7. Learning about sex in Mumbai: rethinking the 'knowledge gap' debate in sexuality education Ketaki Chowkhani; 8. Family planning and the masculinity of Nirodh condoms in India Sayantani Sur; 9. Women and their bodies: menstruation and the construction of sexuality Arunima Deka; 10. Tanjai Prakash: between desire and labour Kiran Keshavmurthy; 11. Hijra intimacies and inheritances Brinda Bose; Contributors; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Srivastava, Sanjay
Sanjay Srivastava is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He has written and published widely on urban spatial politics, sexuality and culture and modernity in India. His most recent publication is Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (2015).

Kumaramkandath, Rajeev
Rajeev Kumaramkandath teaches at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. He has published in areas of postcolonial histories of sexuality and on the question of clandestine sexual subjects. His research also explores the politics behind the death of languages and vernacular movements in South Asian contexts.