{"product_id":"queering-india-samesex-love-and-eroticism-in-indian-culture-and-society-9780415929509","title":"Queering india SameSex Love and Eroticism in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueering India provides an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected area.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003e Queering India\u003c\/em\u003e provides a fascinating, livley, and historically grounded discussionof the impact of same-sex love on Indian culture. Spanning a range of disciplines, these essays shatter the myth that homosexuality is a Western or Northern experience. This is an excellent collection\"\u003cbr\u003e --Urvashi Vaid, co-editor of \u003cem\u003e Creating\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eChange: Public Policy, Sexuality, and Civil Rights\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Ruth Vanita's wonderful project bears fruit. She has assembled a superb collection of essays that establish the queerness of \u003cem\u003edesis\u003c\/em\u003e, the sexual struggle of Indian history. \u003cem\u003eQueering India\u003c\/em\u003e will annoy the despots, but forces of desire do not give in without a few good books.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Vijay Prashad, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Karma of Brown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eFolk\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003e\"Queering India\"\u003c\/em\u003e offers exactly what the best scholarship is supposed to. The book contains an impressive variety of ways to view a vast array of experiences, expressions, and perspectives on the lives of a complex and diverse part of the world. This collection will undermine any shallow assumptions or stereotypes one might hold about sexuality, gender, and daily life in South Asia\"\u003cbr\u003e--Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of \u003cem\u003eCopyrights and\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCopywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThreatens Creativity.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Ruth Vanita. I. Colonial Transitions 1.The Politics of Penetration: Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code 2. Sultan Mahmud's Make-Over: Colonial Homophobia and the Persian-Urdu Literary Tradition 3. Doganas and Zanakhis: The  Invention and Subsequent Erasure of Urdu Poetry's \"Lesbian\"  Voice 4. Alienation, Intimacy, and Gender: Problems for a History of Love in South Asia 5. Eunuchs, Lesbians, and Other  Mystical Beasts: Queering and De-Queering the Kamasutra II. The Visions of Fiction 6. Loving Well: Homosexuality  and Utopian Thought in Post\/Colonial India 7. \"Do I Remove My Skin?\": Interrogating Identity in Suniti Namjoshi's Fables 8. \"Queerness All Mine\": Same-Sex Desire in Kamala Das's Fiction and Poetry 9. Homophobic Fiction\/Homoerotic Advertising: The Pleasures and Perils of Twentieth-Century Indianness  10. What Mrs. Besahara Saw: Reflections on the Gay Goonda III. Performance Pleasures in Theatre, TV, and Cinema 11. A Different Desire, A Different Femininity: Theatrical Transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati, and Marathi Theatres, 1850-1940  12. Queer Bonds: Male Friendships in Contemporary Malayalam  Cinema 13. \"I Sleep Behind you\": Male Homosociality and Homoeroticism in Indian Parallel Cinema 14. Queer Pleasures for  Queer People: Film, Television, and Queer Sexuality in India 15. On Fire: Sexuality and its Incitements 16. After the Fire: Smoldering Questions about Representation","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018216669527,"sku":"9780415929509","price":51.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415929509.jpg?v=1750776047","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queering-india-samesex-love-and-eroticism-in-indian-culture-and-society-9780415929509","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}