Translating Desire The Politics of Gender and Culture in India

includes index and biblioraphy

Myths, archetypes,xtereotypes The search for kathleen mcnally and other chimerical woman colonial and post- colonial gender representationsof eurasians by dolores chew ......2 Fears and fantasies: controlling and creating desires; or,why woman are witches ........30 Designing desire: gender in mainstream bombay cinema ...........48 Masculinities/femininities Out line for an exploration of hindutva of masculinities .......82 Claiming transgression: The bengali feminist magazine sananda and the discourse of sexualtity .............106 The female body Two figures of desire: discourses of the body in malayalam literature .............132 Food transfigured: writing the body in Indian woman`s fiction in English .............145 Same-sexlove same- sex love in India: A brief overview .........166 Too hot to handle: The cultural polities of fire ........182 Rape and violence Embodying the self: Feminism ,sexual violence and the law ..........200 Rape and translation in bandit queen ......238 Translation "The most intimate ACT" The politics of gender, culture and translation ......256 Bangalore: A short story ......282 Biographical notes ........295 Index ......298 Author index .....310