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100			_aSrivastava, Sanjay (ed.)
245		0	_aSexual sites seminal attitudes : sexualities masculinities and culture in south asia
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bSanjay Srivastava
260			_c2004
300			_a410p.
365			_b575
365			_dRS
520			_aDiscussions on sexuality in the South Asian context have tended to focus largely on men`s preoccupations through notions such as `semen-anxiety`. Another restrictive framework is the excessive importance ascribed to religion in everyday life. The result has been a rather narrow debate on sexuality. By providing accounts of a myriad sites and meanings of sexuality, this remarkable volume broadens the debate on sexuality in South Asia. It combines perspectives from history, anthropology, and cultural and literary studies to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of the cultures of, and the multiple meanings and contestations that gather around, masculinities and sexualities. The collection is unique in the breadth of its theoretical concerns; its focus on hitherto marginalized sexual identities; and its novel juxtapositions of analyses of colonial discourses with those of postcolonised modernity.
650			_aSex cutoms
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