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Men and Masculinities in South India (Hardcover, First Edition,): Caroline Osella, Filippo Osella Men and Masculinities in South India (Hardcover, First Edition,)
Caroline Osella, Filippo Osella
R1,916 Discovery Miles 19 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Men and Masculinities in South India aims to increase understanding of gender within South Asia and especially South Asian masculinities, a topic whose analysis and ethnographising in the region has had a very sketchy beginning and is ripe for more thorough examination. This is, in short, an almost empty field dominated so far by short articles and collections and the time is right for the first full-length ethnographic study of masculinities. This ground-breaking monograph covers a range of areas including work, cross-sex relationships, sexuality, men's friendships, religious practices and leisure. This book is especially concerned with issues arising from debates which broadly argue over the differences and merits of approaches to gender and identity - rooted in essentialism versus performativity. Questions about the tensions between essentialist and performative theories of self and gender are therefore highlighted throughout the book and explored in relation to various bodies of theory and to South Asian understandings of personhood.

Social Mobility in Kerala - Modernity and Identity in Conflict (Paperback): Filippo Osella, Caroline Osella Social Mobility in Kerala - Modernity and Identity in Conflict (Paperback)
Filippo Osella, Caroline Osella
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Izhavas are an ex-untouchable community in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Politically and economically weak, stigmatised as 'toddy tappers' and 'devil dancers', and considered unapproachable by clean caste Hindus, a century ago Izhavas were associated with other manual-labouring untouchable castes. In recent decades they have sought to improve their position by accumulating economic, symbolic and cultural capital through employment, religion, politics, migration, marriage, education and have tried to assert their right to mobility, often in the face of opposition from their high status Christian and Nayar neighbours. This study examines how Izhavas, through repudiation of their nineteenth-century identity and search for mobility, have come into complex relationships with modernity, colonialism and globalisation. Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella highlight the complexities and contradictions of modern identity, both locally and globally. The authors' approach builds upon and goes beyond a south Asian focus, showing how the Izhavas represent the rise of formerly stigmatised groups who remain at the same time trapped by stereotype and material disadvantage. Absolute mobility, they argue, has not led to relative mobility within a society which remains stratified and prone to new forms of social exclusion.

The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity - Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Paperback): Sertac... The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity - Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Paperback)
Sertac Sehlikoglu, Frank G Karioris; Contributions by Fernanda Belizario, Ina Goel, Frank G Karioris, …
R1,331 Discovery Miles 13 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using a cross-cultural perspective, The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality examines the conceptual formulation of heteronormativity and highlights the mundane operations of its construction in diverse contexts. Heterosexual culture simultaneously institutionalizes its narrations and normalcies, operating in a way that preserves its own coherency. Heteronormativity gains its privileges and coherency through public operations and the mutuality of the public and private spheres. The contributors to this edited collection examine this coherency and privilege and explore in ethnographic detail the operations and making of heteronormative devices: material, affective, narrative, spatial, and bodily. This book is recommended for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, and gender and sexuality studies.

The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity - Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Hardcover): SertaƧ... The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity - Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Hardcover)
SertaƧ Sehlikoglu, Frank G Karioris; Contributions by Fernanda Belizario, Ina Goel, Frank G Karioris, …
R3,125 Discovery Miles 31 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With a cross-cultural perspective, the essays in The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity examine the consistent constructing of heteronormativity as a way to contribute to the conceptual formulation of the term, bring forward the mundane operations of it in diverse contexts, and establish heteronormativity as the focus of an ethnographic lens. Heterosexual culture simultaneously institutionalizes its narrations and normalcies, so that it operates in a way towards preserving its own coherency. Heteronormativity gains its privileges and coherency through public operations, and the mutuality of public and private. The chapters in this volume examine this coherency and privilege, to explore in ethnographic detail the operations and making of heteronormative devices: material, affective, narrative, spatial and bodily.

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