(Un)familiar femininities : studies in contemporary lesbian South Asian texts / Aneeta Rajendran

Author: Rajendran, Aneeta
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Gender Insubordination: (Un)Familiar Butch Desire -- 2.Lesbians in the House! Cinema and Queer Female Desire -- 3.The (Un)Familiar in the Heart of the Family: Portraits of the Lesbian as a Married Woman -- 4.Unbecoming Women: Shaping (Un)Familiar Lives.

Summary

Tracing the figure of the lesbian through contemporary literary and cinematic productions from the subcontinent and its diaspora, this book uses the word '(un)familiar' to indicate the dualities within sexuality that destabilize, stretch, or ignore binary conceptualizations in queering the status quo.

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9780199085385 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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