The audacity of pleasure : sexualities, literature and cinema in India /

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It is a good time to take stock of paths and markers in the cultural battleground of sexualities in India. To note the impossibility of quantifying wins and losses because this war against moral panics cannot be measured by legislative gains. The politics of sexuality in the arts as well as the ever...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bose, Brinda
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > India > History and criticism.
Indic literature > History and criticism.
Sex in motion pictures.
Sex in literature.
Gender identity > India.
India > Social conditions.
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