Sexualities

by Nivedita Menon (Editor), Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (Editor), Lawrence Cohen (Contributor)

While sexual violence is an area that is well mapped by feminist scholarship, this volume will focus on transgressive and/or marginalized sexualities. It will bring together writings on India that have highlighted the transgression of norms--of heterosexuality, of feminine and masculine behavior, of recognizably gendered bodies, that declare ungoverned desire to be illegitimate. Also included is a section of select documents from different sexuality movements in the country. This book is part of the series of Contemporary Indian Feminism . The other books in the series Gender & Caste edited by Anupama Rao, Feminism in In dia edited by Maitreyee Chaudhuri, Dowry & Inheritance edited by Srimati Basu.

Genres: India, Feminism

380 pages, Hardcover

First published April 4, 2007

About the author

Nivedita Menon is a writer and a professor of political thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She previously taught at Lady Shri Ram College and the Department of Political Science at Delhi University.

Reviews

[Anubha (BooksFullOfLife, LifeFullOfBooks) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Complex interesting take on various subjects