Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Sexuality and Public Space in India: Reading the Visible book cover

1st Edition

Sexuality and Public Space in India Reading the Visible

By Carmel Christy Copyright 2017
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
The topic of sexuality and gender within the South Asian context is timely and widely discussed across a variety of academic disciplines. Since the end of the last century, there have been debates in the cultural sphere in India on issues concerning Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender people’s rights, gender, sex workers’ rights and caste. There has also been an explicit visibility for sexuality in... Read more

Introduction





1. The Sexual Subject: Cartographies of Visibility, Kerala



2. Constituting the Visible: Neology as a Mode of Deploying Language



3. Caste and Sexual Politics: Law and Media as Constitutive Sites



4. The Spaces in-between: The Sex Worker Subject through Autobiographies



5. Epilogue: Differences, Dialogues, Aspirations

Biography

Carmel Christy is an assistant professor of Journalism at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. Besides her expertise in media studies, Carmel is interested in research questions that explore the interconnections among caste, space, body, gender and sexuality. Currently, she is working on a project that analyses the interaction between caste and race in understanding the city of Kochi, Kerala.

Add to Cart