1st Edition
Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India
Foreword by Radhika Chopra
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pushpesh Kumar
Part 1
The Hegemonic and the Counter-hegemonic: Abjection, Misogyny, Resistance and Sexual Agency within the ‘Heteronormative’
1. Sexuality and Unlettered Women: Images from Bhojpuri Folksongs
Asha Singh
2. Nothing Much Happened: Rethinking Heterosexual Middle-Class Adolescent Boys’ Romance in Mumbai
Ketaki Chowkhani
3. Body Politics and Marginality: Understanding the Predicaments of Kalavanthulu
Asima Jena
4. No Place for the Obscene: Debates on Playboy Club in South Asia
Pranoo Deshraju and Pushpesh Kumar
5. Laughter and Abjection: The Politics of Comedy in Malayalam Cinema
Tony Sebastian
6. The Kiss of Love Protests: A Report on Resistance to Abjection in Kerala
J. Devika
Part 2
Glimpses from Contemporary Queer India: Destabilizing/Altering/Transforming or Normativizing?
7. Familiarizing the Unfamiliar in Marriage: The Case of Sodomy as a Ground for Divorce
Saptarshi Mandal
8. Risk and Pleasure: A Case for Queer Erotica
Brinda Bose
9. Finding (Homo)Sexuality in the Genome: A Critique of Genetic Investigations on Sexuality
Sayantan Datta
10. A Life Worth Telling: Love and Suicide in Hijra Lives
Meghana Rao
11. Family Beyond Blood and Marriage: Queer Intimacies and Personal Law
Chayanika Shah
12. A Brief Prehistory of Queer Freedom in the New India
Oishik Sircar
Index
Biography
Pushpesh Kumar teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. His research focuses on queer movement, queer religion, transgender-mobilization, queer consumerism and Marxism and queer theory. He serves on the international advisory board of the Community Development Journal.
