1st Edition
Abrasive, Soft and Ecological Masculinities in North India
1. Abrasive Masculinity and the Impossibility of Intimacy: Introducing Feminist-Queer Concerns 2. Bhakti, Feminine Morality and the Guru Cult: Thakur Anukulchandra and the Culturalization of Everyday Masculine Entitlements 3. The Calibrated Mardangi: Music, Movies and Male Supremacism 4. The Reincarnated Warrior Monk: Political Guru, Bulldozer Justice and Communal Muscularity 5. Confiscatory Masculinity and Resistance: Masculine Disentitlement of Arun Kumar Roy and Shankar Guha Niyogi 6. Grooming a Dheeth Masculinity: Mediatized Muscular Mentality in India’s Hindi Belt 7. Soft Indian Men: The Vulnerable Masculinity of Gay and Feminine Cisgender Men 8. Masculinism and Its Discontents: Detoxifying the Mediatized Movement for Men’s Rights in India 9. Ecomasculine Folk Knowledge of the Hindi Heartland: A Pedagogy of Unlearning 10. Masculinities We Can All Live with in India: An Inconclusion
Biography
Kaustav Chakraborty teaches English at Southfield College, Darjeeling, India. He was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies and the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies.
