This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora by exploring culture, class, ethnicity, identity, intersectionality, migration, borders, diaspora, modernity and cosmopolitanism across various local, regional, and global contexts.
This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora by exploring culture, class, ethnicity, identity, intersectionality, migration, borders, diaspora, modernity and cosmopolitanism across various local, regional, and global contexts.
Ahonaa Roy teaches at the School of Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. A social anthropologist, with MA and DPhil (University of Sussex), she previously taught at the Delhi School of Economics, Department of Sociology. She was previously appointed at the Ministry of Health and has been member of the National Urban Health Mission, Government of India. Ahonaa has been part of several projects with the United Nations, USAID and Government of India. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, medical anthropology, community health and sexual health, anthropology of the body and embodiment, postcolonial studies, postmodern feminist studies and Southern theories. Her book The Making of the Cosmopolitan is forthcoming in 2021.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction PART I. Colonial Knowledge and Postcolonial Multiplicities 1. Religion, Ritual Power, Exclusion and Marginality: Gender Transgressive Shivashaktis in Telangana, Southern India 2. Uncertain Grammars, Ambiguous Desires: Towards a Sexual Politic of Indeterminacy in Sri Lanka 3. Twenty-Five Years after Dominic D'Souza: What Happens when your Queer Icon Refuses to Be? 4. The Iconography of Hindu(ized) Hijras: Idioms of Hijra Representation in Northern India 5. 'A Normal Person Cannot Be Made Queer': The Immorality Act (Amendment) Commission of 1968 in Apartheid South Africa PART II. Transnational Migrations and Diasporic Linkages 6. "I Want a Yaar ": Pakistani Muslim American Gay Men and Transnational Same-Sex Sexual Cultures in the West 7. Decolonizing the Postcolonial Body in Diasporic Time and Space: South Asians in the Caribbean 8. Intersectionality and South Asian Non-Normative Sexualities: The Case of South Asian Lesbians and Bisexual Women in the United Kingdom 9. Trans/Queer South Asian Diaspora in the United Kingdom: Whose "Regimes of the Normal" Does "Queer" Critique? PART III. Global Economization of Sexualities and Gender Transgressing Politics 10. Trans South: Practical Bases for Trans Internationalism 11. On the Limits and Possibilities of LGBTI Politics: Contextualizing Socio-Political Violence and Political Transitions in South America 12. Understanding Gender in Nepal: Concepts and Practices 13. Operationalizing the "New" Pakistani Transgender Citizen: Legal Gendered Grammars and Trans Frames of Feeling 14. The Political Economy of Empowerment: Microfinance, Middle Class and the Sexual Subculture in Contemporary Bangladesh
Introduction PART I. Colonial Knowledge and Postcolonial Multiplicities 1. Religion, Ritual Power, Exclusion and Marginality: Gender Transgressive Shivashaktis in Telangana, Southern India 2. Uncertain Grammars, Ambiguous Desires: Towards a Sexual Politic of Indeterminacy in Sri Lanka 3. Twenty-Five Years after Dominic D'Souza: What Happens when your Queer Icon Refuses to Be? 4. The Iconography of Hindu(ized) Hijras: Idioms of Hijra Representation in Northern India 5. 'A Normal Person Cannot Be Made Queer': The Immorality Act (Amendment) Commission of 1968 in Apartheid South Africa PART II. Transnational Migrations and Diasporic Linkages 6. "I Want a Yaar ": Pakistani Muslim American Gay Men and Transnational Same-Sex Sexual Cultures in the West 7. Decolonizing the Postcolonial Body in Diasporic Time and Space: South Asians in the Caribbean 8. Intersectionality and South Asian Non-Normative Sexualities: The Case of South Asian Lesbians and Bisexual Women in the United Kingdom 9. Trans/Queer South Asian Diaspora in the United Kingdom: Whose "Regimes of the Normal" Does "Queer" Critique? PART III. Global Economization of Sexualities and Gender Transgressing Politics 10. Trans South: Practical Bases for Trans Internationalism 11. On the Limits and Possibilities of LGBTI Politics: Contextualizing Socio-Political Violence and Political Transitions in South America 12. Understanding Gender in Nepal: Concepts and Practices 13. Operationalizing the "New" Pakistani Transgender Citizen: Legal Gendered Grammars and Trans Frames of Feeling 14. The Political Economy of Empowerment: Microfinance, Middle Class and the Sexual Subculture in Contemporary Bangladesh
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