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Author:   Pushpesh Kumar (University of Hyderabad, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781032045092

ISBN 10:   1032045094
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Part 1. The Hegemonic and the Counter-hegemonic: Abjection, Misogyny, Resistance and Sexual Agency within the ‘Heteronormative’ 1. Sexuality and Unlettered Women: Images from Bhojpuri Folksongs 2. Nothing Much Happened: Rethinking Heterosexual Middle-Class Adolescent Boys’ Romance in Mumbai 3. Body Politics and Marginality: Understanding the Predicaments of Kalavanthulu 4. No Place for the Obscene: Debates on Playboy Club in South Asia 5. Laughter and Abjection: The Politics of Comedy in Malayalam Cinema 6. The Kiss of Love Protests: A Report on Resistance to Abjection in Kerala Part 2. Glimpses from Contemporary Queer India: Destabilizing/Altering/Transforming or Normativizing? 7. Familiarizing the Unfamiliar in Marriage: The Case of Sodomy as a Ground for Divorce 8. Risk and Pleasure: A Case for Queer Erotica 9. Finding (Homo)Sexuality in the Genome: A Critique of Genetic Investigations on Sexuality 10. A Life Worth Telling: Love and Suicide in Hijra Lives 11. Family Beyond Blood and Marriage: Queer Intimacies and Personal Law 12. A Brief Prehistory of Queer Freedom in the New India

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Pushpesh Kumar teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. His research focuses on queer movement, queer religion, transgender-mobilization, queer consumerism and Marxism and queer theory. He serves on the international advisory board of the Community Development Journal.

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