An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity.
This book analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance.
A powerful argument that the feminist campaign to address sexual violence has evolved into a problematic alliance with the neoliberal state.
Offers an analysis of the forms and uses of individualism in colonial and anti-colonial India. This book presents an examination of how... Læs mere
Offers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial... Læs mere
A leading feminist film theorist argues that the cinema animates the tropes of and enacts our fears about cloning and other kinds of genetic engineering.
Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11.
A translation of a 1927 short-story collection that was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male same-sex relations; its publication sparked India s first public debates about homosexuality.
Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term "democracy."
Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western - particularly American - popular culture. Yet if one... Læs mere
Examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies - such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting - that have come... Læs mere