Overview
Discussions on sexuality in the South Asian context have tended to focus largely on mens preoccupations through notions such as semen-anxiety. Another restrictive framework is the excessive importance ascribed to religion in everyday life. The result has been a rather narrow debate on sexuality. By providing accounts of a myriad sites and meanings of sexuality, this remarkable volume broadens the debate on sexuality in South Asia. It combines perspectives from history, anthropology, and cultural and literary studies to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of the cultures of, and the multiple meanings and contestations that gather around, masculinities and sexualities. The collection is unique in the breadth of its theoretical concerns; its focus on hitherto marginalized sexual identities; and its novel juxtapositions of analyses of colonial discourses with those of postcolonised modernity.
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Publisher: Sage Publications India
Imprint: Sage Publications India
ISBN: 9781282425262
ISBN 10: 1282425269
Pages: 410
Publication Date: 01 January 2004
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Format: Electronic book text
Publisher's Status: Active
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