Made in India

Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/National Projects
2004. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6020-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 181 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Comparative Feminist Studies

Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts in small towns around India and the simultaneous evolution of the modern homophobia and lesbian NGOs. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhaskaran, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Boomerang Anthropology and Curdled Otherness Taxonomic Desires, the Sutram of Kama, & the World Bank: 'Sexual Minorities' and Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code Compulsory Individuality and the Trans/national Family of Nations: Mothered India, Ms. Worldly, Millennium Sim Eve and the Girl-Child Inverting Economic Man: Pleasure, Violence and 'Lesbian Pacts' in Postcolonial India Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

SUPARNA BHASKARAN is an Anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Women's studies. She has essays published in (Routledge 2001) and (Aunt Lute, 1993).