Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes : Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia

by Sanjay Srivastava

• ISBN13: 9780761997771
• ISBN10: 0761997776
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-20
• Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd

Summary

This book situates current research into the sexual cultures of South Asia within a cross-cultural perspective. The book argues that in societies undergoing rapid social and cultural change, the construction of sexuality and the discourses that gather around it have a fundamental connection with an entire range of processes - social, cultural, economic, political and global - with which people must engage. The contributors have studied sexuality as a site around which social and cultural ideas may be expressed.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	9	(10)
List of Figures	10	(1)
Introduction: Semen, History, Desire and Theory	11	(38)
Sanjay Srivastava
Colonial Aversions and Domestic Desires: Blood, Race, Sex and the Decline of Intimacy in Early British India	49	(34)
Sudipta Sen
Controlling the Ganymedes: The Colonial Gaze in J.R. Ackerley's Hindoo Holiday	83	(16)
Zahid Chaudhary
Theatrical Transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati and Marathi Theatres (1850--1940)	99	(24)
Kathryn Hansen
Rekhti: Impersonating the Feminine in Urdu Poetry	123	(24)
Carla Petievich
Crossing `Lines' of Subjectivity: The Negotiation of Sexual Identity in Hyderabad, India	147	(18)
Gayatri Reddy
A Preliminary Report on Emerging Gay Geographies in Bangalore, India	165	(23)
Chandra S. Balachandran
Emancipated Bodies/Embodying Liberation: Debating through Fire	188	(21)
Vikash N. Pandey
Redrawing the Lakshman Rekha: Gender Differences and Cultural Constructions in Youth Sexuality in Urban India	209	(33)
Leena Abraham
`Cheli-Beti' Discourses of Trafficking and Constructions of Gender, Citizenship and Nation in Modern Nepal	242	(29)
Sushma Joshi
Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices: The Social Shadow of AIDS and STD Prevention in Nepal	271	(29)
Stacy Leigh Pigg
Linnet Pike
Muscularity and its Ramifications: Mimetic Male Bodies in Indian Mass Culture	300	(42)
Kajri Jain
Non-Gandhian Sexuality, Commodity Cultures and a `Happy Married Life': Masculine and Sexual Cultures in the Metropolis	342	(49)
Sanjay Srivastava
About the Editor	391	(1)
About the Series Editor and the Contributors	392	(4)
Index	396