Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Academic Otherness and politics of erotic: confronting the 'normative' -- Abjection and materiality -- Cultures of sexuality in contemporary India: paradoxes/contradictions, heteropatriarchal ascendency, and the 'Emerging Sexual Revolution' -- State, patriarchy and the politicization of sexuality -- Fire controversy and erotic counterpublics -- Delhi rape case, the promises of Justice Verma Committee Report and unmasking the Patriarchal State -- #MeToo, moment: contestations and the normalization of sexual violence -- NALSA verdict, transgender movement and the reading down of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) -- Cultures of sexuality: everyday, private and public, hegemony and marginalities, hetero and queer -- Part 1 -- The hegemonic and the counter-hegemonic: abjection, misogyny, resistance and sexual agency within the 'heteronormative' -- Part 2 -- Glimpses from contemporary queer India: destabilizing/altering/transforming or normativizing? -- References -- Part 1: The hegemonic and the counter-hegemonic: Abjection, misogyny, resistance and sexual agency within the 'heteronormative' -- Chapter 1: Sexuality and unlettered women: Images from Bhojpuri folksongs -- A note on folksongs genres -- Male out-migration: articulating sexuality -- The material and the sexual -- Conclusion and caution -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: 'Nothing much happened': Rethinking heterosexual middle-class adolescent boys' romance in Mumbai -- Adolescent boys' narratives of heterosexual romance, relationships and desire -- Romance and consumerism -- Experiences of heterosexual romance and dating -- Adolescent boys' ideas of heterosexual dating and romance.