| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 202 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Subversive histories, feminist futures NWSA prize
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Worlding postcolonial sexualities : archives, activism, and anterior counterpublics -- "Betta mus cum" : Jamaica as the 'problem-space' of gay and lesbian liberation -- "Rights a di plan" : Sistren and sexual solidarities in Jamaica -- Creating a locational counterpublic : Manushi and the articulation of human rights and sexuality from Delhi, India -- Outing Indian sexualities : Bombay Dost and the limits of queer intersectionality -- Worlding sexualities under apartheid : from gay liberation to a queer Afropolitanism -- Mediated sexualities : civic feminism and development critique in South Africa -- Digital counterpublics and intergenerational listening. |
| Summary |
"Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance. The book's comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, these sources offer a way to examine the convergences and divergences between postcolonial feminist, gay, lesbian activism. It charts a set of concerns common to feminist, gay, and lesbian activist literature: retrogressive colonial-era legislation impacting the status of women and sexual minorities; marked increase in sexual violence; piecemeal reproductive freedoms and sexual choice under neoliberalism; emergence and management of the HIV/AIDS crisis; precariousness of lesbian and transgender concerns within feminist and LGBTQ movements; Non-Governmental Organizations as major actors articulating sexual rights as human rights. This methodologically innovative work is based on archival historical research, analyses of national and international policy documents, close readings of activist publications, and conversations with activists and founding editors. This is an important intervention in the field of Gender and Sexuality Studies and is the winner of the 2020 Feminist Futures, Subversive Histories prize in partnership with the NWSA. The book is key reading for scholars and students in gender, sexuality, comparative literature and postcolonial studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Kanika Batra is Professor of English at Texas Tech University. She writes on and teaches transnational feminist and queer studies, postcolonial literature, and comparative literature. She is the author of Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite (2001) and Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama (2011). |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2021). |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Sexual rights -- Developing countries.
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Sexual rights -- Press coverage -- Developing countries.
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Sexual minorities -- Developing countries.
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Sexual minorities in mass media.
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Human rights movements -- Press coverage -- Developing countries.
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Postcolonialism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
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Postcolonialism. (OCoLC)fst01073032
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Sexual minorities. (OCoLC)fst01202158
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Sexual minorities in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01904664
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Sexual rights. (OCoLC)fst01748883
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Developing countries. (OCoLC)fst01242969
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Batra, Kanika, 1972- Worlding postcolonial sexualities Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9780367772161 (DLC) 2021011838 |
| ISBN |
9781000430127 electronic book |
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100043012X electronic book |
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9780367772161 electronic book |
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0367772167 electronic book |
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100043009X electronic book |
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9781003170303 electronic book |
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1003170307 electronic book |
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9781000430097 (electronic book) |
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9780367772109 paperback |
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