TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bose,Brinda
TI  - AUDACITY OF PLEASURE: sexualities, literature and cinema in India 
SN  - 9789383968220
U1  - 791.43 
PY  - 2017////01/01
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Three Essays
KW  - Motion pictures -- India -- History and criticism
KW  - Indic literature
KW  - Sex in motion pictures
KW  - Sex in literature
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - India
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 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; Includes bibliographical references; Contents

Preface

1.Introduction
 The Audacity of Pleasure
II.Explorations
1.The desiring subject : Female Pleasures and Feminist Resistance in Deepa Mehta's Fire

2.In Desire and in Death :
   Eroticism and Politics in Arundhati Roys
  The God of small things
3.Modernity, Globality, Sexuality and the City : A Reading of 
   Indian Cinema
4.Of Displace Desires :
  Interrogating 'New'Sexualities and New Spaces in Indian 
  Diasportic Cinema
5.Dangerous Liaisons:
  Sex Work, Globalisation, Morality and the State :
   in Contemporary India
6.Hijra Intimacies and Inheritances
7.Notes on Queer Politics in South Asia and its Diaspora
8."The Most Intimate Act'
  The Politics of Gender, Culture and Translation
9.Ristk and Pleasure:
  A Case for Queer Erotica
10.The Erotics of Risk
  Feminism and the Humanities in Flagrante Delicto

III Speculations
1.When the Towel Drops :
Sexuality, Censorship and Cinema
2.The Long Arm of Colonial Rule
   377 and censorship
3.The Ubiquitous F-Word
   Musings on Feminisms and Censorships in South Asia
4.Of Desire and Dissensus :
  Tagore and Ray
5.No More Goddesses, Please:
  On the Abused Goddesses campaign

IV Adventure

1.Gay for More than a Day of Rage
2.What NExt?
   On the 'Kiss of Love'Protests
3.Vigilantism - Left, Right and Wrong
4.Some Notes Toward Queering the Humanities in the University
5.Other Goddesses of the Forbidden Quarters : A Photo Essay

V.Epilogue
   A Fragment, on Grave Pleasure
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