Sexuality Reimagined: Msm in Modern India

Tandon, Shailja

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-10
  • 售價: $5,460
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$5,187
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 162
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 9811970653
  • ISBN-13: 9789811970658
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商品描述

The book examines how medical knowledge is produced around bodies that do not fit in the heteronormative framework of the state's rationale and processes. The marginal bodies studied in this research are termed MSM, men who have sex with men, categorized as a high-risk group in the backdrop of HIV/AIDS. These Queer bodies entered the registers of epidemiology and governmentality. This classification is the point of departure for the book. The book interrogates and asks how does a sexual subject become a political question? To answer this political trajectory, the book analyses the category of risk in biomedicine. It investigates how the category of risk becomes critical to the Indian state's rationale and policies wherein, through the ambit of health and population, sexuality is managed. Unearthing the sexual politics in South Asia, the book, based on rich empirical evidence derived from the lived experiences of MSM, narrates the construction of sexual subjectivity and masculinity. Theprocess of construction occurs in negotiation with the Indian state, bringing forth the dimension of the Indian state as a medico-legal governmentality regime and how MSM takes on the identity of a medicalized subject.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書探討了醫學知識如何在不符合異性戀常態框架的身體周圍產生,這些研究中的邊緣身體被稱為MSM,即與男性發生性行為的男性,被歸類為HIV/AIDS背景下的高風險群體。這些酷兒身體進入了流行病學和政府管理的登記簿。這個分類是本書的出發點。本書質疑並探問了性主體如何成為一個政治問題?為了回答這個政治軌跡,本書分析了生物醫學中的風險類別。它調查了風險類別如何對印度國家的理性和政策至關重要,通過健康和人口的範疇來管理性行為。揭示南亞地區的性政治,本書基於從MSM的生活經驗中獲得的豐富實證材料,講述了性主體性和男性氣質的構建。這個構建過程是在與印度國家的協商中進行的,展示了印度國家作為一個醫療法律政府體制的維度,以及MSM如何承擔醫療化主體的身份。

作者簡介

Shailja Tandon completed her M.Phil. in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She is a social/urban sector professional with five years of research experience in social and public policy, spanning fields like changing urban space (from rural, peri-urban to urban), social inequalities and social security schemes, refugees, gender inequalities and empowerment with a focus on sexual minorities, human capital for development outcomes, and democratic participation and citizen behavior. She is currently coordinating the Knowledge and Practice Group of the Foundation for Creative Social Research, an intellectual initiative to create a discursive platform for interaction among academics, writers, artists, poets, social activists, and policymakers. Currently, she is a Senior Research Associate at Lead at Krea University.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Shailja Tandon在德里的賈瓦哈拉爾尼赫魯大學完成了政治學的碩士學位。她是一位社會/城市部門的專業人士,擁有五年的社會和公共政策研究經驗,涵蓋領域包括城市空間的變化(從農村、近郊到城市)、社會不平等和社會保障計劃、難民、性別不平等和性少數群體的賦權、人力資本對發展成果的影響以及民主參與和公民行為。她目前負責基金會創意社會研究的知識和實踐小組協調工作,該小組是一個知識交流平台,旨在促進學者、作家、藝術家、詩人、社會活動家和政策制定者之間的互動。目前,她是Krea大學的高級研究助理。