South Asian masculinities
Subtitle: context of change, sites of continuity
By: editors, Radhika Chopra, Caroline Osella & Filippo Osella.
Contributors: Chopra, Radhika.; Osella, Caroline.; Osella, Filippo.
Publisher: Women Unlimited an associate of Kali for Women; Women Unlimited
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Men -- India -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Selection of papers presented at the 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, September 2000; chiefly on Indian men.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-416).
Table of contents: title: Encountering masculinity : an ethnographer's dilemma / Radhika Chopra; title: The workplace and the neighbourhood : locating masculinities in the south Indian textile industry / Geert De Neve; title: Virginity vs. decency : continuity and change in Pakistani men's perception of sexuality and women / Thomas Michael Walle; title: 'My man (honour) is lost but I still have my iman (principle)' : sexual violence and articulations of masculinity / Nayanika Mookherjee; title: Gays, paternity, and polyandry : making sense of new family forms in contemporary Sri Lanka / Bob Simpson; title: The masculanity of dis-location : commodities, the metropolis, and the sex-clinics of Delhi and Mumbai / Sanjay Srivastava; title: Young Malayali men and their move heroes / Caroline & Filippo Osella; title: The importance of Gandhi : gendering the national subject in Bombay cinema / Karen Gabriel; title: Another history rises to the surface : melodrama in the age of digital simulation, Hey Ram / Ravi Vasudevan; title: The hero as a holy man : a; title: plea for a communal Hindu identity / Alessandro Monti; title: Developing powers : modernisation and the masculine hegemony of Hindu nationalism / P.K. Vijayan.