Gender, sexuality, decolonization : South Asia in the world perspective
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Gender, sexuality, decolonization : South Asia in the world perspective
Routledge, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
1) This book critically engages with the theory of sexuality from the global south. 2) It also contains empirical case studies from across South Asia and South Asian diaspora on gender and sexuality. 3) It will be of interest to departments of South Asian studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, sociology and social anthropology, political studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial and global south studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction PART I. Colonial Knowledge and Postcolonial Multiplicities 1. Religion, Ritual Power, Exclusion and Marginality: Gender Transgressive Shivashaktis in Telangana, Southern India 2. Uncertain Grammars, Ambiguous Desires: Towards a Sexual Politic of Indeterminacy in Sri Lanka 3. Twenty-Five Years after Dominic D'Souza: What Happens when your Queer Icon Refuses to Be? 4. The Iconography of Hindu(ized) Hijras: Idioms of Hijra Representation in Northern India 5. 'A Normal Person Cannot Be Made Queer': The Immorality Act (Amendment) Commission of 1968 in Apartheid South Africa PART II. Transnational Migrations and Diasporic Linkages 6. "I Want a Yaar": Pakistani Muslim American Gay Men and Transnational Same-Sex Sexual Cultures in the West 7. Decolonizing the Postcolonial Body in Diasporic Time and Space: South Asians in the Caribbean 8. Intersectionality and South Asian Non-Normative Sexualities: The Case of South Asian Lesbians and Bisexual Women in the United Kingdom 9. Trans/Queer South Asian Diaspora in the United Kingdom: Whose "Regimes of the Normal" Does "Queer" Critique? PART III. Global Economization of Sexualities and Gender Transgressing Politics 10. Trans South: Practical Bases for Trans Internationalism 11. On the Limits and Possibilities of LGBTI Politics: Contextualizing Socio-Political Violence and Political Transitions in South America 12. Understanding Gender in Nepal: Concepts and Practices 13. Operationalizing the "New" Pakistani Transgender Citizen: Legal Gendered Grammars and Trans Frames of Feeling 14. The Political Economy of Empowerment: Microfinance, Middle Class and the Sexual Subculture in Contemporary Bangladesh
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