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Title:
A question of silence : the sexual economies of modern India / Janaki Nair & Mary E. John (eds.)
Publisher:
Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press,
Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press,
Copyright Date:
2000, c1998
Description:
viii, 412 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Women--India--Social conditions.--Congresses.
Sex customs--India.--Congresses.
Sex role--India.--Congresses.
Other Authors:
Nair, Janaki.
John, Mary E., 1956-
Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop (26th : 1996 : Madras Insitute of Development Studies)
Notes:
Originally published: New Delhi : Kali for Women, 1998. Papers presented at the 26th Inter Disciplinary Research Methodology Workshop held at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, August, 1996. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Globalisation, sexuality and the visual field: issues and the non-issues for cultural critique / Mary E. John. 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 costal 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 the non-issues for cultural critique / Mary E. John.
ISBN:
9781856498920 (pbk.)
1856498921 (pbk.)
9781856498913
1856498913
OCLC:
(OCoLC)44603019
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

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