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100	1		_aBose, Brinda
245	1	4	_aAUDACITY OF PLEASURE : _bsexualities, literature and cinema in India / _cBrinda Bose.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew Delhi _bThree Essays _c2017/01/01
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500			_aIt 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.
505			_aContents 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
650		0	_aMotion pictures -- India -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aIndic literature
650		0	_aSex in motion pictures.
650		0	_aSex in literature.
650		0	_aGender identity
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504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
650		0	_zIndia _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_zIndia.
651		0	_aIndia _xSocial conditions.
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