Cosmopolitan Sexuality

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-108-49044-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Cosmopolitan Sexuality articulates the ethnographic and anthropological studies of varied embodied projects in Indian metropolises. With particular reference to the city of Bombay, it draws evidences of gendered representations – their desires, appeal and aspirations to be and to express their sense of self. It attempts to establish arguments to a deconstructive notion of any fixation of identity categories and build a robust and complex understanding of sexual experiences, love, emotions and interpersonal relationships; an unusual way of local as well as global patterns that are culturally scathed in the contemporary new India. The book is relevant to contemporary embodiment studies – the invasive means of desiring corporeal reconstruction on one hand, and dress, ornamentation, and makeup on the other. Transgressive politics are discursively and materially constructed to their everydayness and their unique ways of re-representation. 'Health' is viewed in new dynamics of shared knowledges and communicative practices that has enabled building fresh arguments around community and public health, with new visions of the anthropologies of empowerment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roy, Ahonaa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Bioengineering, Beauty and Racial Sensibility; 3. Contesting Violence, Constructing Power; 4. Festival, Spectacle, Eroticism; 5. Biopolitics and Biosocial Citizenship; 6. Performative Participation, Sexual Health and Community Development; 7. Cosmopolitanism: Rights, Citizenry and the Culture of Representation; 8. Postscript; Glossary; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Roy, Ahonaa
Ahonaa Roy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also a Tata Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge (2022). She has published widely on sexuality and sexual health, social medicine, sexuality studies, masculinity studies, embodiment and body studies and gender and subaltern studies. She edited the volume Gender, Sexuality Decolonization: South Asia in the World Perspective, published by Routledge in 2020.