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Introduction

Gender and masculinities: new perspectives

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Pages 167-175 | Published online: 25 Feb 2013
 

Notes

2. For Indian audiences, this issue has recently been examined in Aamir Khan's hit TV show Satyamev Jayte, episode 7.

3. Cf. Lahiri and Bandyopadhyay, “Dressing the Feminine Body.”

4. See Ray, Fields of Protest. See also fn. 6.

5. See Bose, Gender and Censorship. For a recent feminist critique of the movement and its “middle class”/elitist characteristics, see Kapur, “Pink Chaddis and SlutWalk Couture.”

6. Doron, “Mobile Persons.”

7. One of the most insightful analyses of the recent Delhi gang-rape is also driven by a wider concern about patriarchy and its ills in India, captured by the question: “What Do Men Have To Do With It?” the article written by Rahul Roy explores the patriarchic structures that influence even India's most “enlightened” institutions, and agents populating the political left, and civil society organizations. See http://kafila.org/2012/12/28/what-do-men-have-to-do-with-it/ (accessed 2 January 2013).

8. See, for example, Times of India, 19 June 2011, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-19/india/29676266_1_mobile-phones-bans-unmarried-girls (accessed 12 January 2012). Times of India, 23 November 2010, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-11-23/india/28235199_1_mobile-phones-panchayat-gotra-marriages (accessed 12 January 2012). See also the Hindu, 13 July 2012, for a similar proclamation by village elders in western UP. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3632680.ece (accessed 13 July 2012).

9. See, for example, Nandy's seminal essay on Sati in 19th Century India, in Nandy, At the Edge of Psychology.

10. For example, Lukose, “Consuming Globalization,” 915–35.

11. For a summary of what has become known as India's “Porngate” see the Wikipedia entry, “2012 Karnataka video clip controversy” on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Karnataka_video_clip_controversy (accessed 6 August 2012)

12. The latest of these MMS scandals, featured the gang rape of Dalit girl, and prompted the suicide of her father, see http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/father-kills-himself-after-dalit-daughter-s-gang-rape-mms-two-arrested-271475 (accessed 5 December 2012). On crime and MMS see also Doron and Jeffrey, Great Indian Phone Book.

13. See for example, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-01-20/india/27860492_1_mobile-ban-mobile-phones-mms-scandal; and http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ban-mobile-phones-and-jeans-fad-in-villages-and-colleges-across-india/1/209217.html; See also the recent work on youth and the reproduction of heterosexual masculinities in higher education institutions. Jeffrey, Jeffery, and Jeffery, Degrees without Freedom.

14. See Gurumurthy and Menon “Violence against Women via Cyberspace,” 19–21; Derne, Globalization on the Ground.

15. Connell, Masculinities.

16. Butler, Gender Trouble.

17. For example, Messner, Politics of Masculinities; Sabo and Gordon, Men's Health and Illness; Watson, Male Bodies.

18. For example, Broom and Tovey, Men's Health; Courtney, “Constructions of Masculinity and Their Influence on Men's Well-Being.”

19. Connell, Masculinities; Messner, Politics of Masculinities.

20. While the most prominent academic journal in the field is Men and Masculinities; other journals are emerging, for instance Culture, Society and Masculinities, the Journal of Black Masculinity and Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.

21. For example, Banerjee, Make Me a Man; Bose, Women in the Hindu Tradition.

22. Amongst the significant works in the field are, Chatterjee, Nation and its Fragments; Sarkar, Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation; Roy, Gendered Citizenship; and Gupta, Gendering Colonial India.

23. Chopra, Osella, and Osella, South Asian Masculinities; Osella and Osella, Men and Masculinities in South India; Srivastava, Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes; and Jeffery, Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics.

24. For example, see Sangari, “Politics of Diversity-Religious Communities and Multiple Patriarchies.”

25. See Gupta, Sexuality, Obscenity, Community, and her more recent piece, “Feminine, Criminal or Manly?”; Srivastava, Passionate Modernity.

26. On the concept of Brhamacharya, see Joseph Alter's seminal works, Gandhi's Body; The Wrestler's Body.

27. Reddy, With Respect to Sex.

28. Bose, Women in the Hindu Tradition, 2.

29. Douglas Haynes has most recently examined these issues with relation to the advertising industry in late colonial India, which reveal a fascinating shift in the circulation of images and conceptions about male sexuality and the body. See Haynes, “Selling Masculinity.”

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