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Author Bhaskaran, Suparna.

Title Made in India : decolonizations, queer sexualities, trans/national projects / Supama Bhaskaran
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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 MELB  305.420945 Bha/Mii  AVAILABLE
Description 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Comparative feminist studies series
Comparative feminist studies series.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence of arrogant experience : boomerang anthropology and curdled otherness -- 3. Compulsory individuality and the trans/national family of nations : the girl-child, Bollywood Barbie, and Ms. Worldly Universe -- 4. Taxonomic desires, the Sutram of Kama, and the World Bank : "sexual minorities" and section 377 of the Indian penal code -- 5. Inverting economic man : pleasure, violence, and "lesbian pacts" in postcolonial India
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-176) and index
Subject Lesbians -- India.
Women -- India -- Social conditions.
Feminism -- India.
Lesbians -- India -- Identity
Women's rights -- India.
LC no. 2004044506
ISBN 1403960208 hardcover
1403967261 paperback