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Oxford University Press (Un) Familiar Femininities Studies in Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Aneeta Rajendran
A nuanced reading of contemporary literary and cinematic texts from India and its diaspora, this work traces the histories of the 'un(familiar)' lesbian in the homophobic realm around us. Focusing on representations and legacies of such femininities, the author shows how female same-sex socialities and female same-sex love straddle terrains both familiar and unfamiliar, arguing that homosexuality and heterosexuality are not in opposition but in a state of constant dialogue with each other.Suitable for: Primary Market: Libraries Apart from institutions, libraries, the work will be of interest to scholars of gender, women studies, culture studies. Secondary Market: The book will be both a good teaching tool for undergraduate classes as well as a useful meditation on the field for higher-level research. Euro-American research and teaching institutions in the humanities-social sciences can be specifically targeted in the marketing process due to their relative lack of access to works on the subject matter produced from an Indian-non-Western context. Due to its great topicality, the book will also be of great interest to the general reader as well as anyone broadly interested in feminist-queer inquiry.