Sanjay Srivastava

Passionate Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context.

This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publications and journals on sexology from the 1920s to the 1940s, and links Indian activities with those in other parts of the world. The author analyzes material that has thus far been outside the purview of scholarly studies, namely, 'footpath pornography', magazines such as Sexology Mirror (in Hindi), women's magazines dealing explicitly with sex and sexuality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000087659
• Artikelnr.: 60575895

Autorenporträt

Dr Srivastava is a social anthropologist teaching at the School of Communication and creative Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne. He is presently Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Apart from articles in books and journals, Dr Srivastava is the author of Constructing Post-colonial India: National Character and the Doon School; co-author of Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age ; and co-editor of Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Sexual Swarajya, Debased Muslims and Uncontrollable
Tribals: Subcontinental Sex Questions 2. Instruction for Utopia: 'Sane Sex
Living', Eugenics, and the Making of a Transnational Modernity in the Early
20th Century 3. The Idea of Lata Mangeshkar: Hindu Sexuality, the Girl
Child and Heterosexual Desire in the Time of the Five Year Plans 4. The
Masculinity of Dis-Location: Commodities, the Metropolis and the
Sex-Clinics of Delhi and Mumbai 5. Pedestrian Desires: Footpath Pornography
and the Aesthetics of Fluid Spaces 6. Threshold and Surplus Subjectivities:
Sexology Darpan Makes Meanings in Hari Nagar 7. Among the Veg: Tacos and
Baby Pizzas, Shekhar and Monica Make Silent, Unsatisfactory Love:
Domesticating Sexuality 8. "A Rainbow of Wishes": Tupperware, Female
Sexuality, Home, and the World 9. Conclusion: Complicating "Sexuality"