ISBN:
1000330117
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9781000330113
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9781003025474
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1003025471
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9781000330199
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1000330192
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9781000330151
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100033015X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (326 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
South Asian diaspora Social conditions
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South Asian diaspora Sexual behavior
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Political aspects
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Sexual minority culture Political aspects
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Sexual minority culture Religious aspects
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Sexual minorities Social conditions
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Gender-nonconforming people Social conditions
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Homophobia Political aspects
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Transphobia Political aspects
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Sexual minority immigrants Social conditions
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Postcolonialism
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Queer theory
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Electronic books
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Electronic books
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Essay
Abstract:
Part I. Colonial knowledges and postcolonial multiplicities. Chapter 1. Religion, ritual power, exclusion and marginality: Gender-transgressive Shivashaktis in Telangana, Southern India / Pushpesh Kumar and Archana Rao M. ; Chapter 2. Uncertain grammars, ambiguous desires: Towards a sexual politic of indeterminacy in Sri Lanka / Themal Ellawala ; Chapter 3. Twenty-five years after Dominic D'Souza : What happens when your queer icon refuses to be? / R. Benedito Ferrão ; Chapter 4. The iconography of Hindu(ized) hijras: Idioms of hijra representation in Northern India / Appita Phukan Biswas ; Chapter 5. A normal person cannot be made queer : The immorality act (amendment) commission of 1968 in apartheid South Africa / Vasu Reddy -- Part II. Transnational migrations and diasporic linkages. Chapter 6: I want a yaar : Pakistani Muslim American gay men and transnational same-sex sexual cultures in the West / Ahmed Afzal ; Chapter 7. Decolonizing the postcolonial body in diasporic time and space : South Asians in the Caribbean / Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan ; Chapter 8. Intersectionality and South Asian Non-Normative Sexualities : The case of South Asian lesbians and bisexual women in the United Kingdom / Anna Fry, Surya Monro, Vicki Smith ; Chapter 9. Trans/queer South Asian diaspora in the United Kingdom : Whose Regimes of the Normal does Queer critique? / Shamira A. Meghani -- Part III. Global economization of sexualities and gender transgressing politics. Chapter 10. Trans south : Practical bases for trans internationalism / Raewyn Connell ; Chapter 11. On the limits and possibilities of LGBTI politics : Contextualizing socio-political violence and political transitions in South America / José Fernando Serrano-Amaya ; Chapter 12. Understanding gender in Nepal : Concepts and practices / Gyanu Chhetri ; Chapter 13. Operationalizing the new Pakistani transgender citizen : Legal gendered grammars and trans frames of feeling / Sara Shroff ; Chapter 14. The political economy of empowerment : Microfinance, middle class and the sexual subculture in contemporary Bangladesh / Ahonaa Roy.
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