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South Asian masculilnities : Context of change, sites of continuity

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi Kali For Women 2004Description: 419pISBN:
  • 9788186706756
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.300000 CHO
Contents:
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.
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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.