A question of silence : the sexual economies of modern India

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A question of silence : the sexual economies of modern India

Janaki Nair & Mary E. John (eds.)

Zed Books, 2000, c1998

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Papers first presented at the 26th Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop, Madras Institute of Development Studies, August 1996

Originally published: New Delhi : Kali for Women, 1998

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Has there been a ‘conspiracy of silence’ regarding sexuality in India, be it within social movements or as a focus of scholarship? A Question of Silence? interrogates this assumption in order to thematise a crucial field. Prefaced by a detailed introductory overview, the essays use diverse perspectives to develop an understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of representation of sexual relations and their boundaries of legitimacy. From unravelling the Kamasutra (the text) to investigating KamaSutra (the condom) the volume includes essays on how sexuality has been framed by the law, within social movements, or has been the site for patrolled caste, ethnic or gender identities. Other essays analyse cinematic, televisual and literary representations of sexuality. Taken as a whole, this book makes room for more wide-ranging approaches for tackling the sexual economies of desire and violence among men and women in modern India.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: A Question of Silence? - Mary E. John and Janaki Nair 2. Unravelling the Kamasutra - Kumkum Roy 3. Offences agaist Marriage - Samita Sen 4. 'Left to the Imagination': Indian nationalisms and female sexuality - Tejaswini Niranjana 5. Reproductive Bodies and Regulated Sexuality - Anandhi S. 6. Comrades-in-Arms - U. Vindhya 7. Sexuality and the Film Apparatus - Ravi Vasudevan 8. Citizenship and its Discontents - Susie Tharu 9. Inventing Saffron History - Uma Chakravarti 10. Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities - Kalpana Ram 11. On Bodily Love and Hurt - V. Geetha 12. Enforcing Cultural Codes - Prem Chowdhry 13. Globalisation, Sexuality and the Visual Field - Mary E.John

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