(Hi)Stories of Desire : Sexualities and Culture in Modern India (Hardcover)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: sexuality and sexualities Sanjay Srivastav and Rajeev Kumaramkandath; 1. Politics of prop roots: beyond 'the repressive hypothesis' Anup Dhar; 2. Of identities and other desires: thinking about sexualities Anirban Das; 3. The stuttered process of subject formation: a sex worker's experiments with narration Navaneetha Mokkil; 4. Sexual realism? (hetero) sexual excess and the birth of obscenity in Malayalam literature Rajeev Kumaramkandath; 5. Sexualizing K?l? P?ni Akshaya K. Rath; 6. Memories of a queer sexuality: revisiting two 'Toto' folk tales Kaustav Chakraborty; 7. Learning about sex in Mumbai: rethinking the 'knowledge gap' debate in sexuality education Ketaki Chowkhani; 8. Family planning and the masculinity of Nirodh condoms in India Sayantani Sur; 9. Women and their bodies: menstruation and the construction of sexuality Arunima Deka; 10. Tanjai Prakash: between desire and labour Kiran Keshavmurthy; 11. Hijra intimacies and inheritances Brinda Bose; Contributors; Index.