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A question of silence? : the sexual economics of modern India
- Conferences
- Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop (26th : 1996 : Madras Institute of Development Studies)
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- Creator
- edited by Mary E. John and Janaki Nair
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New Delhi : Kali for Women, 1998
- Physical Details
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- viii, 412 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9788186706084, 8186706089
- OCLC
- ocm41285284
- "All the papers in this collection, except the introduction, were presented at the XXVI Interdisciplinary Research Methodology Workshop at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, 1-3 August 1996"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : a question of silence? / Mary E. John and Janaki Nair -- Unravelling the Kamasutra / Kumkum Roy -- Offences against marriage : negotiating custom in colonial Bengal / Samita Sen -- "Left to the imagination" : Indian nationalisms and female sexuality in Trinidad / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Reproductive bodies and regulated sexuality : birth control debates in early twentieth century Tamilnadu / Anandhi S. -- Comrades-in-arms : sexuality and identity in the contemporary revolutionary movement in Andhra Pradesh and the legacy of Chalam / U. Vindhya -- Sexuality and the film apparatus : continuity, non-continuity and discontinuity in Bombay cinema / Ravi Vasudevan -- Citizenship and its discontents / Susie Tharu -- Inventing Saffron history : a celibate hero rescues an emasculated nation / Uma Chakravarti -- Uneven modernites and ambivalent sexualities : women's constructions of puberty in costal Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu / Kalpana Ram -- On bodily love and hurt / V. Geetha -- Enforcing cultural codes : gender and violence in northern India / Prem Chowdhry -- Globalisation, sexuality and the visual field : issues and the non-issues for cultural critique / Mary E. John