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Unruly figures : queerness, sex work, and the politics of sexuality in Kerala  Cover Image E-book E-book

Unruly figures : queerness, sex work, and the politics of sexuality in Kerala / Navaneetha Mokkil.

Mokkil, Navaneetha, (author.).

Summary:

Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala -- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment -- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS -- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness -- Living together, dying together: the politics of lesbian hauntings -- "What you think is fire": unspooled movements and suspended readings.

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  • ISBN: 9780295745565
  • ISBN: 0295745568
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
  • Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala -- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment -- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS -- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness -- Living together, dying together: the politics of lesbian hauntings -- "What you think is fire": unspooled movements and suspended readings.
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Description based on print version record.
Subject: Prostitution > India > Kerala.
Lesbianism > India > Kerala.
Sex in mass media.
Feminist theory.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
Feminist theory.
Lesbianism.
Prostitution.
Sex in mass media.
India > Kerala.
Lesbische Liebe Motiv
Prostitution Motiv
Prostitution
Lesbische Liebe
Massenmedien
Kerala
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.


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