Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Images
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Sexuality and Sexualities
- 1 Politics of Prop Roots: Beyond ‘The Repressive Hypothesis’
- 2 Of Identities and Other Desires: Thinking about Sexualities
- 3 The Stuttered Process of Subject Formation: A Sex Worker's Experiments with Narration
- 4 Sexual Realism? (Hetero)Sexual Excess and the Birth of Obscenity in Malayalam Literature
- 5 Sexualizing Kālā Pāni
- 6 Memories of a Queer Sexuality: Revisiting Two ‘Toto’ Folk Tales
- 7 Learning about Sex in Mumbai: Rethinking the ‘Knowledge Gap’ Debate in Sexuality Education
- 8 Family Planning and the Masculinity of Nirodh Condoms in India
- 9 Women and Their Bodies: Menstrual Celebrations and Construction of Sexuality in Assam
- 10 Tanjai Prakash: Between Desire and Labour
- 11 Hijra Intimacies and Inheritances
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Images
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Sexuality and Sexualities
- 1 Politics of Prop Roots: Beyond ‘The Repressive Hypothesis’
- 2 Of Identities and Other Desires: Thinking about Sexualities
- 3 The Stuttered Process of Subject Formation: A Sex Worker's Experiments with Narration
- 4 Sexual Realism? (Hetero)Sexual Excess and the Birth of Obscenity in Malayalam Literature
- 5 Sexualizing Kālā Pāni
- 6 Memories of a Queer Sexuality: Revisiting Two ‘Toto’ Folk Tales
- 7 Learning about Sex in Mumbai: Rethinking the ‘Knowledge Gap’ Debate in Sexuality Education
- 8 Family Planning and the Masculinity of Nirodh Condoms in India
- 9 Women and Their Bodies: Menstrual Celebrations and Construction of Sexuality in Assam
- 10 Tanjai Prakash: Between Desire and Labour
- 11 Hijra Intimacies and Inheritances
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Index
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- (Hi)Stories of DesireSexualities and Culture in Modern India, pp. 211 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020