Description
Product ID: | 9781403960207 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Comparative Feminist Studies |
Title: | Made in India |
Subtitle: | Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects |
Authors: | Author: S. Bhaskaran |
Page Count: | 181 |
Subjects: | Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies, gender groups, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Anthropology, Gay & Lesbian studies, Physical anthropology, India |
Description: | Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts in small towns around India and the simultaneous. Made In India explores the making of "queer" and "heterosexual" consciousness and identities in light of economic privatization, global condom enterprises, sexuality-focused NGOs, the Bollywood-ization of beauty contests, and trans/national activism. In examining seemingly disparate and high profile events in post/neo colonial India, since the 1990s, Made In India demonstrates the relationships between identity formation and the political economy of trans/national sexualities. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization. Bhaskaran''s unique analysis makes Made in India an important addition to postcolonial studies, gender studies, and diaspora studies courses. |
Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publisher Name: | Palgrave USA |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2005-07-07 |