ISBN:
8186706755
,
9788186706756
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 419 S
,
22 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
305.309 54
Keywords:
Men Congresses
;
Social conditions
;
India
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Südasien
;
Männlichkeit
;
Mann
;
Soziale Identität
;
Soziale Rolle
Abstract:
Selection of papers presented at the 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, September 2000; chiefly on Indian men
Description / Table of Contents:
Encountering masculinity : an ethnographer's dilemma / Radhika Chopra -- The workplace and the neighbourhood : locating masculinities in the south Indian textile industry / Geert De Neve -- Virginity vs. decency : continuity and change in Pakistani men's perception of sexuality and women / Thomas Michael Walle -- 'My man (honour) is lost but I still have my iman (principle)' : sexual violence and articulations of masculinity / Nayanika Mookherjee -- Gays, paternity, and polyandry : making sense of new family forms in contemporary Sri Lanka / Bob Simpson -- The masculanity of dis-location : commodities, the metropolis, and the sex-clinics of Delhi and Mumbai / Sanjay Srivastava -- Young Malayali men and their move heroes / Caroline & Filippo Osella -- The importance of Gandhi : gendering the national subject in Bombay cinema / Karen Gabriel -- Another history rises to the surface : melodrama in the age of digital simulation, Hey Ram / Ravi Vasudevan --The hero as a holy man : a
Description / Table of Contents:
plea for a communal Hindu identity / Alessandro Monti -- Developing powers : modernisation and the masculine hegemony of Hindu nationalism / P.K. Vijayan
Note:
Contributed articles - Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-416)
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e1l8-aa
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