Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India

This volume explores existing and emerging sexual cultures of contemporary India and the predicaments faced by abjected and sexual marginalities.

Autorentext

Pushpesh Kumar teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. His research focuses on queer movement, queer religion, transgender-mobilization, queer consumerism and Marxism and queer theory. He serves on the international advisory board of the Community Development Journal.

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1. The Hegemonic and the Counter-hegemonic: Abjection, Misogyny, Resistance and Sexual Agency within the 'Heteronormative' 1. Sexuality and Unlettered Women: Images from Bhojpuri Folksongs 2. Nothing Much Happened: Rethinking Heterosexual Middle-Class Adolescent Boys' Romance in Mumbai 3. Body Politics and Marginality: Understanding the Predicaments of Kalavanthulu 4. No Place for the Obscene: Debates on Playboy Club in South Asia 5. Laughter and Abjection: The Politics of Comedy in Malayalam Cinema 6. The Kiss of Love Protests: A Report on Resistance to Abjection in Kerala Part 2. Glimpses from Contemporary Queer India: Destabilizing/Altering/Transforming or Normativizing? 7. Familiarizing the Unfamiliar in Marriage: The Case of Sodomy as a Ground for Divorce 8. Risk and Pleasure: A Case for Queer Erotica 9. Finding (Homo)Sexuality in the Genome: A Critique of Genetic Investigations on Sexuality 10. A Life Worth Telling: Love and Suicide in Hijra Lives 11. Family Beyond Blood and Marriage: Queer Intimacies and Personal Law 12. A Brief Prehistory of Queer Freedom in the New India