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Palgrave Made in India Decolonizations Queer Sexualities Trans/national Projects 2005 Edition by S. Bhaskaran
Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts in small towns around India and the simultaneous evolution of the modern homophobia and lesbian NGOs. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization. Table of contents : - Introduction Boomerang Anthropology and Curdled Otherness Taxonomic Desires, the Sutram of Kama, & the World Bank: 'Sexual Minorities' and Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code Compulsory Individuality and the Trans/national Family of Nations: Mothered India, Ms. Worldly, Millennium Sim Eve and the Girl-Child Inverting Economic Man: Pleasure, Violence and 'Lesbian Pacts' in Postcolonial India Afterword