Made in India Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects

by Bhaskaran, Suparna

• ISBN13: 9781403967268
• ISBN10: 1403967261
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781403979254
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-27
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Made In India explores the making of "queer" and "heterosexual" consciousness and identities in light of economic privatization, global condom enterprises, sexuality-focused NGOs, the Bollywood-ization of beauty contests, and trans/national activism. In examining seemingly disparate and high profile events in post/neo colonial India, since the 1990s, Made In India demonstrates the relationships between identity formation and the political economy of trans/national sexualities. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization. Bhaskaran's unique analysis makes Made in India an important addition to postcolonial studies, gender studies, and diaspora studies courses.

Author Biography

Suparna Bhaskaran is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Boomerang Anthropology and Curdled Otherness * Compulsory Individuality & the Transnational Family of Nations: The Girl-Child, Bollywood Barbie & Ms. Wordly Universe * Taxonomic Desires, The Sutram of Kama, and the World Bank: "Sexual Minorities" and Section 377 of The Indian Penal Code * Inverting Economic Man: Pleasure, Violence and "Lesbian Pacts" in Postcolonial India * Bibliography