Bose, Brinda <br/><br/>
AUDACITY OF PLEASURE :  sexualities, literature and cinema in India / 
Brinda Bose. 
 - First edition. 
 - New Delhi  Three Essays  2017/01/01 
 -  328 
<br/><br/> It is a good time to take stock of paths and markers in the cultural battleground of sexualities in India. To note the impossibility of quantifying wins and losses because this war against moral panics cannot be measured by legislative gains. The politics of sexuality in the arts as well as the everyday in india lies, rather, in a fecund grey area that bristles with the sheer audacity of imagined and real pleasures. In some crucial sense, it must always remain audacious. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Contents<br/><br/>Preface<br/><br/>1.Introduction<br/> The Audacity of Pleasure<br/>II.Explorations<br/>1.The desiring subject : Female Pleasures and Feminist Resistance in Deepa Mehta's Fire<br/><br/>2.In Desire and in Death :<br/>   Eroticism and Politics in Arundhati Roys<br/>  The God of small things<br/>3.Modernity, Globality, Sexuality and the City : A Reading of <br/>   Indian Cinema<br/>4.Of Displace Desires :<br/>  Interrogating 'New'Sexualities and New Spaces in Indian <br/>  Diasportic Cinema<br/>5.Dangerous Liaisons:<br/>  Sex Work, Globalisation, Morality and the State :<br/>   in Contemporary India<br/>6.Hijra Intimacies and Inheritances<br/>7.Notes on Queer Politics in South Asia and its Diaspora<br/>8."The Most Intimate Act'<br/>  The Politics of Gender, Culture and Translation<br/>9.Ristk and Pleasure:<br/>  A Case for Queer Erotica<br/>10.The Erotics of Risk<br/>  Feminism and the Humanities in Flagrante Delicto<br/><br/>III Speculations<br/>1.When the Towel Drops :<br/>Sexuality, Censorship and Cinema<br/>2.The Long Arm of Colonial Rule<br/>   377 and censorship<br/>3.The Ubiquitous F-Word<br/>   Musings on Feminisms and Censorships in South Asia<br/>4.Of Desire and Dissensus :<br/>  Tagore and Ray<br/>5.No More Goddesses, Please:<br/>  On the Abused Goddesses campaign<br/><br/>IV Adventure<br/><br/>1.Gay for More than a Day of Rage<br/>2.What NExt?<br/>   On the 'Kiss of Love'Protests<br/>3.Vigilantism - Left, Right and Wrong<br/>4.Some Notes Toward Queering the Humanities in the University<br/>5.Other Goddesses of the Forbidden Quarters : A Photo Essay<br/><br/>V.Epilogue<br/>   A Fragment, on Grave Pleasure 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789383968220 9383968222 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchase  IPDA,New Delhi 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017350930 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures -- India -- History and criticism.<br/>Indic literature<br/>Sex in motion pictures.<br/>Sex in literature.<br/>Gender identity--History and criticism.--India--History and criticism.--India.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43  / BOS/AU