A question of silence : the sexual economies of modern India / Janaki Nair & Mary E. John (eds.).
- Published:
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 2000.
New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press. - Copyright Date:
- ©1998
- Physical Description:
- viii, 412 pages ; 22 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Nair, Janaki, John, Mary E., 1956-, and Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop (26th : 1996 : Madras Insitute of Development Studies)
- Contents:
- Introduction: A question of silence? The sexual economies of modern India / 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 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.
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- ISBN:
- 1856498913
1856498921 (pbk.) - Note:
- 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. - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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