Made In India explores the making of ''queer'' and ''heterosexual'' consciousness and identities in light of economic privatization, global condom enterprises, sexuality-focused NGOs, the Bollywood-ization of beauty contests, and trans/national activism. In examining seemingly disparate and high profile events in post/neo colonial India, since the 1990s , Made In India demonstrates the relationships between identity formation and the political economy of trans/national sexualities. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization. Bhaskaran's unique analysis makes Made in India an important addition to postcolonial studies, gender studies, and diaspora studies courses.
Author(s): Suparna Bhaskaran
Series: Comparative Feminist Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2004
Language: English
Commentary: 29066
Pages: 193
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 The Evidence of Arrogant Experience: Boomerang Anthropology and Curdled Otherness......Page 26
3 Compulsory Individuality and the Trans/national Family of Nations: The Girl-Child, Bollywood Barbie, and Ms. Worldly Universe......Page 48
4 Taxonomic Desires, the Sutram of Kama, and the World Bank: "Sexual Minorities" and Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code......Page 82
5 Inverting Economic Man: Pleasure, Violence, and "Lesbian Pacts" in Postcolonial India......Page 122
Notes......Page 162
Bibliography......Page 178
E......Page 188
I......Page 189
N......Page 190
S......Page 191
Z......Page 192
