"All the papers in this collection, except the introduction, were presented at the XXVI Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, 1-3 August 1996"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : a question of silence? / Mary E. John and Janaki Nair -- Unravelling the Kamasutra / Kumkum Roy -- Offences against marriage : negotiating custom in colonial Bengal / Samita Sen -- "Left to the imagination" : Indian nationalisms and female sexuality in Trinidad / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Reproductive bodies and regulated sexuality : birth control debates in early twentieth century Tamilnadu / Anandhi S. -- Comrades-in-arms : sexuality and identity in the contemporary revolutionary movement in Andhra Pradesh and the legacy of Chalam / U. Vindhya -- Sexuality and the film apparatus : continuity, non-continuity and discontinuity in Bombay cinema / Ravi Vasudevan -- Citizenship and its discontents / Susie Tharu -- Inventing Saffron history : a celibate hero rescues an emasculated nation / Uma Chakravarti -- Uneven modernities and ambivalent sexualities : women's constructions of puberty in coastal Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu / Kalpana Ram -- On bodily love and hurt / V. Geetha -- Enforcing cultural codes : gender and violence in northern India / Prem Chowdhry -- Globalisation, sexuality and the visual field : issues and non-issues for cultural critique / Mary E. John
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