(Hi)Stories of Desire

Rajeev Kumaramkandath teaches at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. He has published in areas of postcolonial histories of sexuality and on the question of clandestine sexual subjects. His research also explores the politics behind the death of languages and vernacular movements in South Asian contexts. Sanjay Srivastava is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He has written and published widely on urban spatial politics, sexuality and culture and modernity in India. His most recent publication is Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (2015).

• 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 Kālā Pāni 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.