Sexualities /

While sexual violence is an area that is well mapped by feminist scholarship, this volume focuses on transgressive and marginalized sexualities. It includes a section of select documents from different sexuality movements in the country.

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Other Authors: Menon, Nivedita.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Zed, 2007.
Series:Issues in contemporary Indian feminism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Outing heteronormativity : nation, citizen, feminist disruptions / Nivedita Menon
  • Queer struggles around the law : the contemporary context / Arvind Narrain
  • Complicating gender : rights of transsexuals in India / Ashwini Sukthankar
  • Rescaling transnational 'queerdom' : lesbian and 'lesbian' identitary-positionalities in Delhi in the 1980s / Paola Bacchetta
  • Heteronormativity in educational institutions / Tarun
  • Marriage, sexuality and motherhood / Fernando Franco, Jyotsna Macwan, Suguna Ramanathan
  • Invisible men : masculinity, sexuality and male domestic labour / Radhika Chopra
  • Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of modernity / Lawrence Cohen
  • Pleasure me safely, can you? / Radhika Chandiramani
  • On the far side of memory / N. Lalitambika Antarjanam
  • Lust for life : desire in Lalitambika Antarjanam's writings / J. Devika
  • Lustful women, elusive lovers : identifying males as objects of female desire / Prem Chowdhry
  • Drag king/queen / Georgina L. Maddox
  • Women's groups oppose ban on dance-bars / Women's groups in Mumbai and all over India
  • Report on lesbian meeting / National Conference on Women's Movement in India, Tirupati, 1994
  • Images on AIDS and sexuality : tribute to Siddhartha Gautam / 'Friends of Siddharth', 1992
  • Sexuality minorities fight against police atrocities / Public campaign by Bengalese groups, 2000
  • Letter to the NHRC opposing medical treatment of homosexuality / National Law School, Bangalore, 2001
  • Section 377 and child sexual abuse / Voices Against 377
  • Resolution on Section 377 / Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Women's Studies, Goa, 2005
  • Sexuality and fundamentalism : exploring linkages, confronting challenges / Voices Against 377, 2005
  • Muslim women and sexuality / The Muslim Women's Rights Network et al., 2004
  • A statement of women in prostitution / Veshya Anyaya Mukti Parishad (VAMP) and Sangram.