Sexuality studies /
edited by Sanjay Srivastava
- New Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013.
- xii, 320 p.
- Oxford India studies in contemporary society. .
Introduction / Sanjay Srivastava -- Scripting pleasures and perversions : writings of sexologists in the twentieth century / Sanjam Ahluwalia -- Wanton women and cheap prints : farces, other genres, and the reading publics in colonial Calcutta / Hardik Brata Biswas -- Beyond equivalence : body and language in family courts / Srimati Basu -- Bodies gone awry : the abjection of sexuality in development discourse in contemporary Kerala / J. Devika -- Queer formations in (Hindu) nationalism / Paola Bacchetta -- Decriminalization as deregulation? : logics of sodomy law and the state / Jyoti Puri -- True sex and the law : prostitution, sodomy, and the politics of sexual minoritization in India / Svati P. Shah -- The object of attention : same-sex sexualities in small town India and the contemporary sexual subject / Paul Boyce -- Queering subjectivities : on the praxis of outing gender, race, caste, and class in ethnographic fieldwork / Diepiriye Kuku -- Street, footpath, gated community : on the cultures of Indian pornography / Sanjay Srivastava -- Love attacks : romance and media voyeurism in the public domain / Christiane Brosius -- But I can't carry a condom! : young women, risk, and sexuality in the time of globalization / Shilpa Phadke.
Sexuality in general and particularly in India remains an ever enigmatic phenomenon, giving rise to a vast field of academic study across the social and human sciences. Through in-depth theoretical analysis and an array of case studies, this volume establishes a firm analytical framework for sexuality studies in the country