Sexuality and Public Space in India: Reading the Visible

ISBN-13: 9780367870027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 130 str.

Carmel Christy

Opis

This book probes into the modalities of the constitution of the increased visibility of gender and sexuality in India to understand the peculiarities of how it is being made visible in the public space. Focussing on the southern state of Kerala, the book investigates sexuality and women’s lives through a number of case studies: the Suryanelli ra

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Spis treści

Introduction

1. The Sexual Subject: Cartographies of Visibility, Kerala

2. Constituting the Visible: Neology as a Mode of Deploying Language

3. Caste and Sexual Politics: Law and Media as Constitutive Sites

4. The Spaces in-between: The Sex Worker Subject through Autobiographies

5. Epilogue: Differences, Dialogues, Aspirations

O autorze

Carmel Christy is an assistant professor of Journalism at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. Besides her expertise in media studies, Carmel is interested in research questions that explore the interconnections among caste, space, body, gender and sexuality. Currently, she is working on a project that analyses the interaction between caste and race in understanding the city of Kochi, Kerala.