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020			_a9781108490443
082			_a306.76 _bROY
100			_aRoy, Ahonaa _918418
245			_aCosmopolitan sexuality: _bgender, embodiments, biopolitics in India
260			_bCambridge University Press _aNew York _c2022
300			_axv, 253 p.
365			_aINR _b1095.00
500			_aTable of Contents: List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Bioengineering, Beauty and Racial Sensibility 3. Contesting Violence, Constructing Power 4. Festival, Spectacle, Eroticism 5. Biopolitics and Biosocial Citizenship 6. Performative Participation, Sexual Health and Community Development 7. Cosmopolitanism: Rights, Citizenry and the Culture of Representation 8. Postscript Glossary Index. [https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/anthropology/social-and-cultural-anthropology/cosmopolitan-sexuality-gender-embodiments-biopolitics-india?format=HB&isbn=9781108490443]
520			_aCosmopolitan 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. Anthropological study of the popular transgender culture in contemporary Mumbai Conceptual clarity with strong ethnography Contemporary theory intersecting classical/continental theory (https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/anthropology/social-and-cultural-anthropology/cosmopolitan-sexuality-gender-embodiments-biopolitics-india?format=HB&isbn=9781108490443)
650			_aHistory
650			_aSexuality _918845
650			_aIndia
650			_aGender studies _918846
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