| Description |
410 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Studies on contemporary South Asia ; no. 4 |
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Studies on contemporary South Asia ; 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: semen, history, desire and theory / Sanjay Srivastava -- Colonial aversions and domestic desires: blood, race, sex and the decline of intimacy in early British India / Sudipta Sen -- Controlling the Ganymedes: the colonial gaze in J.R. Ackerly's Hindoo holiday / Zahid Chaudhary -- Theatrical transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati and Marathi theatres (1850-1940) / Kathryn Hansen -- Rekhti: impersonating the feminine in Urdu poetry / Carla Petievich -- Crossing 'lines' of subjectivity: the negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India / Gayatri Reddy -- A preliminary report on emerging gay geographies in Bangladore, India / Chandra S. Balachandran -- Emancipated bodies, embodying liberation: debating through Fire / Vikash N. Pandey -- Redrawing the Lakshman Rekha: gender differences and cultural constructions in youth sexuality in urban India / Leena Abraham -- 'Cheli-Beti' discourses of trafficking and constructions of gender, citizenship and nation in modern Nepal / Sushma Joshi -- Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices: the social shadow of AIDS and STD prevention in Nepal / Stacy Leigh Pigg and Linnet Pike -- Muscularity and its ramifications: mimetic male bodies in Indian mass culture / Kajri Jain -- Non-Gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures and a 'happy married life': masculine and sexual cultures in the metropolis / Sanjay Srivastava. |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- South Asia.
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Sex customs -- India.
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Masculinity -- South Asia.
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Masculinity -- India.
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Men -- Sexual behavior -- South Asia.
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Men -- Sexual behavior -- India.
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| Added Author |
Srivastava, Sanjay, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0761997776 U.S. cloth |
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0761997784 U.S. paper |
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9780761997788 U.S. paper |
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9780761997771 U.S. cloth |
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