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Srivastava, Sanjay (2007) Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Abstract

Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context. This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publications and journals on sexology from the 1920s to the 1940s, and links Indian activities with those in other parts of the world. The author analyzes material that has thus far been outside the purview of scholarly studies, namely, ‘footpath pornography’, magazines such as Sexology Mirror (in Hindi), women’s magazines dealing explicitly with sex and sexuality.

Item Type: Authored Books
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology
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ISBN: 9780415424158
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367817619
Date Deposited: 11 Oct 2022 10:28
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/38110
Related URLs: https://www.tay ... njay-srivastava (Publisher URL)

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