Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia

by Saskia E. Wieringa

Book Overview

This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845197690
• ISBN13: 9781845197698
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"