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Sakhiyani

Author : Giti Thadani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474287042
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Sakhiyani written by Giti Thadani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of many years of research, this unique book presents fascinating perspectives on contemporary lesbian life in India and unravels some of the history of lesbian desire from centuries past. Through detailed examination of mythology, cosmology, ancient art and artefacts and her exegesis of ancient Sanskrit texts, Thadani constructs a tapestry of feminine kinship, genealogy and sexual or erotic bonding between women (sakhiyani) in ancient India. The author offers an historical perspective on the effect of colonization upon lesbian identities in India, showing how women were viewed by Western imperialists either as soft victims or as sexually dangerous, possessing an overgrown clitoris and in need of heterosexual domestication. The second half of the book focuses on contemporary lesbian realities and issues, including lesbian marriages, suicide pacts, forging lesbian space, lesbian human rights, lesbophobia, sexual exile and the different construction of gender, family and possible kinship alliances.

Queer Activism in India

Author : Naisargi N. Dave
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353199
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Queer Activism in India written by Naisargi N. Dave and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the creation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s through the early 2000s and explores the everyday practices that comprise queer activism in India.

Moebius Trip

Author : Giti Thadani
Publisher : Spinifex Press
ISBN 13 : 9781876756543
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Moebius Trip written by Giti Thadani and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by 15 years of road trips, this traveling history follows the search for relics, lost temples, and sacred sites that comprise the archaeology of lesbians in ancient India. While exploring the places, stories, and people of India, the author goes beneath the surface of more recent patriarchal cultures that have neglected or desecrated icons of the sacred feminine to reveal the marvels and mythology nearly forgotten by history.

The Double Goddess

Author : Vicki Noble
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9781591430117
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Double Goddess written by Vicki Noble and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the "double goddess" iconography prominent in Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures that expands our understanding of female sovereignty. Celebrates this archetype of sacred female bonding and depicts a vast array of relationships women may form with themselves and each other to explore a sense of self and empowerment, and to share power with each other.

Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures

Author : George Haggerty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0815333544
Total Pages : 919 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (153 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures by : George Haggerty

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures written by George Haggerty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this Encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavours. While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the Encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered. Written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new researchers this is intended as a reference for students and scholars in all areas of study, as well as the general public.

The Goddess as Role Model

Author : Heidi R.M. Pauwels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019045153X
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Goddess as Role Model written by Heidi R.M. Pauwels and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to understand the major mythological role models that mark the moral landscape navigated by young Hindu women. Traditionally, the goddess Sita, faithful consort of the god Rama, is regarded as the most important positive role model for women. The case of Radha, who is mostly portrayed as a clandestine lover of the god Krishna, seems to challenge some of the norms the example of Sita has set. That these role models are just as relevant today as they have been in the past is witnessed by the popularity of the televised versions of their stories, and the many allusions to them in popular culture. Taking the case of Sita as main point of reference, but comparing throughout with Radha, Pauwels studies the messages sent to Hindu women at different points in time. She compares how these role models are portrayed in the most authoritative versions of the story. She traces the ancient, Sanskrit sources, the medieval vernacular retellings of the stories and the contemporary TV versions as well. This comparative analysis identifies some surprising conclusions about the messages sent to Indian women today, which belie the expectations one might have of the portrayals in the latest, more liberal versions. The newer messages turn out to be more conservative in many subtle ways. Significantly, it does not remain limited to the religious domain. By analyzing several popular recent and classical hit movies that use Sita and Radha tropes, Pauwels shows how these moral messages spill into the domain of popular culture for commercial consumption.

Cosmopolitan Sexuality

Author : Ahonaa Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009276581
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Sexuality written by Ahonaa Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmopolitan Sexuality articulates the ethnographic and anthropological studies of varied embodied projects in Indian metropolises. With particular reference to the city of Bombay, it draws evidences of gendered representations – their desires, appeal and aspirations to be and to express their sense of self. It attempts to establish arguments to a deconstructive notion of any fixation of identity categories and build a robust and complex understanding of sexual experiences, love, emotions and interpersonal relationships; an unusual way of local as well as global patterns that are culturally scathed in the contemporary new India. The book is relevant to contemporary embodiment studies – the invasive means of desiring corporeal reconstruction on one hand, and dress, ornamentation, and makeup on the other. Transgressive politics are discursively and materially constructed to their everydayness and their unique ways of re-representation. 'Health' is viewed in new dynamics of shared knowledges and communicative practices that has enabled building fresh arguments around community and public health, with new visions of the anthropologies of empowerment.

Made in India

Author : S. Bhaskaran
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403979251
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Made in India written by S. Bhaskaran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts in small towns around India and the simultaneous evolution of the modern homophobia and lesbian NGOs. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization.

A Question of Silence

Author : Janaki Nair
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856498920
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Silence written by Janaki Nair and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume develop an understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of representation of Indian sexual relations and their boundaries of legitimacy.

The Butterfly Effect

Author : Susan Hawthorne
Publisher : Spinifex Press
ISBN 13 : 9781876756567
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Butterfly Effect written by Susan Hawthorne and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side. This work includes poems on a range of subjects, including death, history, culture physics, and more.

Linguistics, Literature and Culture

Author : Shakila Abdul Manan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443843962
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Linguistics, Literature and Culture written by Shakila Abdul Manan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the changing realities in the fields of linguistics, literature and culture in Asia, resulting from globalization, modernisation and rapid technological development. It consists of sixteen essays by academics and researchers around the world, reflecting on the interface between the global and the local, and its impact on the local and regional languages, literatures and cultures of Asia. This scenario, which exemplifies language contact in action, is captured by the book mainly to demonstrate that linguistic negotiations, appropriations and indeed changes are not one-way. As such, their implications on language use, language choice, language policy and planning, literacy and pedagogy, identity, subjectivity and culture need to be closely examined. The uniqueness of this book lies in its attempt to showcase original research in a variety of multicultural settings. Its multi- and cross-disciplinary approach will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers from diverse backgrounds. This book will serve as a useful reference that is both scholarly and informative for researchers as well as academics in the fields of linguistics, literature and culture.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide [3 volumes]

Author : Chuck Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313342326
Total Pages : 1345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide [3 volumes] written by Chuck Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 1345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set has an ambitious scope with the goal of offering the most up-to-date international overview of key issues in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. HIV/AIDS has been a major media focus, but this set fosters a broader understanding of the status of LGBT individuals in their society. More than 70 countries are represented. The clear, accessible prose is appropriate for high school student research on up. The material is especially needed in a cultural climate that increasingly supports and requires information about LGBT populations. The content is useful for a paper on a hot topic, health classes, discussion groups, and gay-straight alliance groups.

Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800

Author : K. O'Donnell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023052415X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800 written by K. O'Donnell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the most up to the minute snapshot of scholarship on queer/gay historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. It features the work of the most established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and promises to take the study of same-sex relations in the early modern period in radical new directions.

Gender in the Making

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004649980
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Gender in the Making written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India

Author : Jyoti Puri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135962650
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India by : Jyoti Puri

Download or read book Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India written by Jyoti Puri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999.Jyoti Puri draws on post-colonial and feminist theory to focus on how women in current-day India conceptualize their gender and sexuality. She provides a groundbreaking ethnographic study based on fifty-four middle- and upper-class Indian women, ranging from the ages of fifteen to thirty-eight. She argues that these women's narratives are shaped by not only the nation-state, but by transnational processes as well. Woman, Bodyand Desire in Postcolonial India connects important issues of class an nationhood to the emerging sense of female identity in India, covering previously neglected topics such as menstruation, gay and straight sexual experience, sexual harassment and assault, marriage and motherhood. Puri discovers that attitudes about sexuality and gender are surprisingly similar in India and Western countries.

A Special Illumination

Author : Rollan McCleary
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315475677
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book A Special Illumination written by Rollan McCleary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay spirituality represents a hidden strand in Western thought that was only publically declared from the Gay Liberation of the 1970s. Since "coming out", expressions of gay spirituality have proliferated in both number and diversity. Beginning with gay theology within Christianity, the phenomenon has now reached as far as Buddhism and neo-paganism. But, so far, critical analysis of the movement has been very limited largely because gay spirituality has been treated as a political and social movement arguing for rights and acceptance within religious circles. 'A Special Illumination' offers an indepth analysis and argues that gay spirituality should be placed at the heart of religion.

Sapphistries

Author : Leila J. Rupp
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814777260
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Sapphistries written by Leila J. Rupp and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place. Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women’s desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other. Giving voice to words from the mouths and pens of women, and from men’s prohibitions, reports, literature, art, imaginings, pornography, and court cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to imagine possibilities when there is no historical evidence. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present.