Men And Masculinities In South India

Author : Caroline Osella
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843312328
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men and Masculinities in South India written by Caroline Osella and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropological examination of masculinity within South Asian societies.

Author : Radhika Chopra
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Asian Masculinities written by Radhika Chopra and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Does It Mean To Be A Man In The Shifting Context Of South Asia? Masculinity Has In Recent Years Begun To Be Theorised As A Field Of Study; While Its Study In Different Cultural Areas (Islamic, American, Mediterranean) Has Been Undertaken, South Asia Remains Relatively Unexplored. This Volume Seeks To Fill The Gap And Build A Wider Body Of Ethnographic Work, As Well As Contribute To The Theoretical Literature On Gender. The Papers Are Drawn From Anthropology, History, Film Studies And Literature, And Are Aimed At South Asian Scholars As Well As A Wider Audience Of People Interested In Gender Studies.

Author : Caroline Osella
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843313995
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men and Masculinities in South India written by Caroline Osella and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Men and Masculinities in South India' aims to increase understanding of gender within South Asia and especially South Asian masculinities, a topic whose analysis and ethnographising in the region has had a very sketchy beginning and is ripe for more thorough examination.

Author : Shannon Philip
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009158716
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Young Men in a New India written by Shannon Philip and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Young Men in a New India tells the gendered story of a changing India through the lives of its young middle class men. Through time spent ethnographically 'hanging-out' with young men in gyms, bars, clubs, trains and gay cruising grounds in India, this book critically reveals Indian men's violence towards women in various city spaces and also shows the many classed and masculine entitlements and challenges that they experience. The book lays bare the often secretive and hidden social worlds of young Indian men and critically analyses the impact young men's actions and identities have not just for themselves, but for the many women they encounter. In this way, it puts forward a critical queer-feminist perspective of men and masculinities in postcolonial India where the politics of class, gender, sexuality, violence and urban spaces come together.

Author : Chandrima Chakraborty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317494628
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping South Asian Masculinities written by Chandrima Chakraborty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first substantial critical examination of men and masculinities in relation to political crises in South Asian literatures and cultures. It employs political crisis as a frame to analyze how South Asian men and masculinities have been shaped by critical historical events, events which have redrawn maps and remapped or unmapped bodies with different effects. These include colonialism, anti-colonialism, state formations, civil wars, religious conflicts, and migration. Political crisis functions as a framing device to offer nuances and clarifications to the assumed visibility of male bodies and male activities during political crisis. The focus on masculinities in historical moments of crisis divests masculinity of its naturalization and calls for a heterogeneous conceptualization of the everyday practices and experiences of ‘being a man.’ Written by scholars from a variety of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches, and drawing on a range of written and visual texts, this book contributes to this recent rethinking of South Asian literary and cultural history by engaging masculinity as a historicized category of analysis that accommodates an understanding of history as differentiated encounters among bodies, cultures, and nations. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Author : Rohit K. Dasgupta
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786472243
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculinity and Its Challenges in India written by Rohit K. Dasgupta and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of new interdisciplinary essays provides insights into the emerging field of masculinities and the challenges it poses to the Indian male. Masculinities research has evolved considerably and demonstrates that men are not an homogenous group but are instead diverse--there are many "masculinities." Manliness can no longer be studied from just a North American or European perspective but from those of every part of the world. Covering an array of topics such as the construction of identity and the negotiation of power and sexuality, these essays aim to show how masculinities are experienced and embodied within India.

Author : Sikata Banerjee
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148369X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Me a Man! written by Sikata Banerjee and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the ideals of masculine Hinduism—and the corresponding feminine ideals—that have built the Indian nation, and explores their consequences.

Author : Sanjay Srivastava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009179861
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculinity, Consumerismand the Post-national Indian City written by Sanjay Srivastava and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculine cultures define urban cultures and are defined by them. A multidisciplinary analysis that explores urbanism, masculine anxieties and gender relations.

Author : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520301668
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impersonations written by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries—village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative—to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.

Author : Assa Doron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351565931
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Masculinities written by Assa Doron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make up masculinities remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often misrepresented facet of gender relations and cultural dynamics. Gender and Masculinities offers a collection of chapters that seek to unravel the complex ideas, practices and concepts revolving around gender structures and masculinities in India and Sri Lanka.The contributions to this volume draw on a range of disciplines, including history, comparative literatures, religion, anthropology, and development studies to illuminate the key issues that have shaped our understanding of gender relations and masculinities over time and across a range of geographical areas. By carefully attending to historical and contemporary gender ideologies and practices in South Asia, this book provides a critical exploration of masculinities in their plurality, as shifting, culturally located and embedded in religious ideologies, power relations, the politics of nationalism, globalisation and economic struggles. The volume will attract scholars interested in history, anthropology, sociology, nationalism, colonialism, religion and kinship, and popular culture.This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.