The phobic and the erotic: the politics of sexualities in contemporary india / edited by Brinda bose an dsubhabrata bhattacharyya

PROVISIONAL* Introduction* Preludes Aveek Sen* Queering Cultural Studies: Notes Towards A Framework Pramod K Nayar Sexuality and Globalization Dennis Altman* Us, 'Sexuality Types': A Critical Engagement with the Post coloniality of Sexuality Akshay Khanna Risky Lives Geeta Patel* A Case of Radical Kinship: Edward Carpenter and the Politics of Anticolonial Sexual Dissidence Leela Gandhi* The Prurient Postcolonial: The Legal Regulation of Sexual Speech Ratna Kapur* There are No Short Cuts to Queer Utopia: Sodomy, Law and Social Change Arvind Narrain* The Lesbian Standpoint Ranjita Biswas* Putting the 'B' Back in LGBT: Bisexuality, Queer Politics and HIV/AIDS DiscourseL. Ramakrishnan* Sexual Difference and its Discontents: Shifting Contexts of 'Thirdness' in Hyderabad Gayatri Reddy* Double Minorities: The Experiences of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Indians in the Diaspora Sandip Roy* Section 377: How natural is normal?Nivedita Menon* 'Living the Way We Want': Same-Sex Marriage in India Ruth Vanita* Sappho: A Journey Through Fire Akanksha Malobika* Rights for a Third Gender: Problems of Identity and Recognition Bhaswati Chakravorty* Kothis versus other MSM: Identity versus Behaviour in the Chicken and Egg Paradox Ashok Row Kavi* Ambiguous Practices: Sexual space and Spatial Sex amongst Men who have Sex with Men in Calcutta Paul Boyce* False Appearances and Mistaken Identities: The Phobic and the Erotic in Bombay Cinema's Queer Vision Shohini Ghosh* The Desiring Subject: Female Pleasures and Feminist Resistance in Deepa Mehta's Fire Brinda Bose* Approaching the Present: The Pre-text-the Fire ControversySibaji Bandyopadhyay* Challenging the Hetero-norm in Art: Amrita Sher-Gil and Bhupen KhakarGeorgina Maddox* Agha Shahid Ali's Kashmir and the Gay NationHoshang Merchant* East-West Myth/Making in Suniti Namjoshi's Feminist-Lesbian FablesShivani Mutneja* Playing Woman, Playing Power: 'Performing the Goddess': A Reading of a Documentary on Chapal BhaduriAnuradha Ghosh