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This book documents and analyzes the effects of the COVID-19
pandemic through queer and feminist perspectives. A testament of
dispossessions as well as a celebration of various forms of
resilience, community building and critical responses, it
chronicles the social history of queer and trans persons and women
in South Asia and the diasporas. Through a creative and
collaborative form of ethnographic writing, the book enters in
conversation with the worlds of domestic helps, caregivers,
cultural workers, students, sex workers and other precariously
employed people. It examines the confining effects of the pandemic
on the lived realities of many queer and trans individuals, the
caste-oppressed and women across socio-economic backgrounds. The
chapters in the volume piece together narratives of prejudice,
hardship, self-expression and resistance from interviews, personal
accounts, as well as poems and stories from activists, artists and
other collaborators. The book pays particular attention to issues
of power and asymmetrical relationships amidst COVID-19 and offers
critiques to deepen the understanding of the uneven fault lines
within which historically oppressed persons reside in South Asia.
Exploring themes of migration, disability and sexual politics, this
book is an essential reading for scholars and researchers of gender
and sexuality studies, cultural studies, South Asian studies,
sociology and social anthropology.
This volume draws on the significance of the work of Marilyn
Strathern in respect of its potential to queer anthropological
analysis and to foster the reimagining of the object of
anthropology. The authors examine the ways in which Strathern's
varied analytics facilitate the construction of alternative forms
of anthropological thinking, and greater understanding of how
knowledge practices of queer objects, subjects and relations
operate and take effect. Queering Knowledge offers an innovative
collection of writing, bringing about queer and anthropological
syntheses through Strathern's oeuvre. It will be relevant to
scholars from anthropology as well as a number of other
disciplines, including gender, sexuality and queer studies. *Winner
of the 2020 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Edited Volume*
This volume draws on the significance of the work of Marilyn
Strathern in respect of its potential to queer anthropological
analysis and to foster the reimagining of the object of
anthropology. The authors examine the ways in which Strathern's
varied analytics facilitate the construction of alternative forms
of anthropological thinking, and greater understanding of how
knowledge practices of queer objects, subjects and relations
operate and take effect. Queering Knowledge offers an innovative
collection of writing, bringing about queer and anthropological
syntheses through Strathern's oeuvre. It will be relevant to
scholars from anthropology as well as a number of other
disciplines, including gender, sexuality and queer studies. *Winner
of the 2020 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Edited Volume*
Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an
explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and
methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the
study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social
sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become apparent that a
number of leading edge critical issues remain. This theory-building
book explores some of the areas in which there is major and
continuing debate, for example, about the relationship between
sexuality and gender; about the nature and status of
heterosexuality; about hetero- and homo-normativity; about the
influence and intersection of class, race, age and other factors in
sexual trajectories, identities and lifestyles; and about how best
to understand the new forms of sexuality that are emerging in both
rich world and developing world contexts. With contributions from
leading and new scholars and activists from across the globe, this
book highlights tensions or 'flash-points' in contemporary debate,
and offers some innovative ways forward in terms of thinking about
sexuality - both theoretically and with respect to policy and
programme development. An extended essay by Henrietta Moore
introduces the volume, and an afterword by Jeffrey Weeks offers
pointers for the future. The contributors bring together a range of
experiences and a variety of disciplinary perspectives in engaging
with three key themes of sexual subjectivity and global
transformations, sexualities in practice, and advancing new
thinking on sexuality in policy and programmatic contexts. It is of
interest to students, researchers and activists in sexuality,
sexual health and gender studies, especially those working from
public health, sociological and anthropological perspectives.
Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an
explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and
methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the
study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social
sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become apparent that a
number of leading edge critical issues remain.
This theory-building book explores some of the areas in which
there is major and continuing debate, for example, about the
relationship between sexuality and gender; about the nature and
status of heterosexuality; about hetero- and homo-normativity;
about the influence and intersection of class, race, age and other
factors in sexual trajectories, identities and lifestyles; and
about how best to understand the new forms of sexuality that are
emerging in both rich world and developing world contexts.
With contributions from leading and new scholars and activists
from across the globe, this book highlights tensions or
flash-points in contemporary debate, and offers some innovative
ways forward in terms of thinking about sexuality both
theoretically and with respect to policy and programme development.
An extended essay by Henrietta Moore introduces the volume, and an
afterword by Jeffrey Weeks offers pointers for the future.
The contributors bring together a range of experiences and a
variety of disciplinary perspectives in engaging with three key
themes of sexual subjectivity and global transformations,
sexualities in practice, and advancing new thinking on sexuality in
policy and programmatic contexts. It is of interest to students,
researchers and activists in sexuality, sexual health and gender
studies, especially those working from public health, sociological
and anthropological perspectives.
Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing
bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready
categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object
therefore raises a number of important methodological questions:
what is it possible to know about experiences, practices and
perceptions of sex and sexualities? What approaches might help or
hinder our efforts to probe such experiences? This collection
explores the creative, personal and contextual parameters involved
in researching sexuality, cutting across disciplinary boundaries
and drawing on case studies from a variety of countries and
contexts. Combining a wide range of expertise, its contributors
address such key areas as pornography, sex work, intersectionality
and LGBT perspectives. The contributors also share their own
experiences of researching sexuality within contrasting
disciplines, as well as interrogating how the sexual identities of
researchers themselves can relate to, and inform, their work. The
result is a unique and diverse collection that combines practical
insights on field work with novel theoretical reflections.
Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing
bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready
categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object
therefore raises a number of important methodological questions:
what is it possible to know about experiences, practices and
perceptions of sex and sexualities? What approaches might help or
hinder our efforts to probe such experiences? This collection
explores the creative, personal and contextual parameters involved
in researching sexuality, cutting across disciplinary boundaries
and drawing on case studies from a variety of countries and
contexts. Combining a wide range of expertise, its contributors
address such key areas as pornography, sex work, intersectionality
and LGBT perspectives. The contributors also share their own
experiences of researching sexuality within contrasting
disciplines, as well as interrogating how the sexual identities of
researchers themselves can relate to, and inform, their work. The
result is a unique and diverse collection that combines practical
insights on field work with novel theoretical reflections.
The word doyennes signifies the various expressions of female,
feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India,
through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women's
Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of
these issues set in the society of Indian culture. Indian women's
literature is still a fertile ground for critical enquiry. There
are three sections in the collection: Section I deals with specific
instances in history, historical constructions, and representations
of gender. Section II offers a varied spectrum of feminist critical
discourse on contemporary Indian women's writing, intersecting with
the frameworks of post-colonial theory, deconstruction,
perspectives on race and ethnicity, and eco-feminism. Section III
touches upon the notion of the woman's body and psyche through the
varied perspectives of psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-feminism.
By thoroughly exploring a range of issues, Contemporary Women's
Writing promises to take the reader by the hand, and journey
through the unfamiliar but refreshing landscape of women's
literature in India.
Tamm DuHan reaches adolescence after a difficult childhood which
included boyhood illness and the devastating effects the death of a
younger sister and, soon after, his mother. By the time he is
fifteen, his father packs him off to the Warrior's Academy in the
great city where, through his own perseverance, he is chosen to
train as an elite fighter. He is to undergo weapons, survival and
alchemy skills practice.
A few years of unrelentingly severe training results in him being
selected to become an executive agent for the city Magelords. His
first mission sees him thrown into a world of deception, intrigue,
danger and friendships as he joins a company of travelling
performers. Harley is assisted through his naivete by the Company's
performers. Soon be becomes the hunter, and the hunted, and must
place his trust in those who have limited experience in fighting.
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