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Chopra Radhika

South Asian masculilnities : Context of change, sites of continuity - New Delhi Kali For Women 2004 - 419p

Contents:
Encountering masculinity : an ethnographer's dilemma / Radhika Chopra;
The workplace and the neighbourhood : locating masculinities in the south Indian textile industry / Geert De Neve;
Virginity vs. decency : continuity and change in Pakistani men's perception of sexuality and women / Thomas Michael Walle;
'My man (honour) is lost but I still have my iman (principle)' : sexual violence and articulations of masculinity / Nayanika Mookherjee
Gays, paternity, and polyandry : making sense of new family forms in contemporary Sri Lanka / Bob Simpson;
The masculanity of dis-location : commodities, the metropolis, and the sex-clinics of Delhi and Mumbai / Sanjay Srivastava;
Young Malayali men and their move heroes / Caroline & Filippo Osella;
The importance of Gandhi : gendering the national subject in Bombay cinema / Karen Gabriel;
Another history rises to the surface : melodrama in the age of digital simulation, Hey Ram / Ravi Vasudevan;
The hero as a holy man : a. plea for a communal Hindu identity / Alessandro Monti;
Developing powers : modernisation and the masculine hegemony of Hindu nationalism / P.K. Vijayan.

ISBN: 9788186706756

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Masculinities - New Use - South Asia - A STudy2. Masculinites - Sexuality

Dewey Class. No.: 306.300000 / CHO