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Dancing Odissi Paratopic Performances of Gender and State
ISBN: PB: 9780857425539, Seagull Books, February 2020
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones, 22 facsimiles
Odissi holds iconic status as one of the eight classical dance forms recognized and promoted by the Indian government. This book traces the dance's transformation from its historical role as a regional artistic practice to its modern incarnation as t...
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£22,00
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Friendship as Social Justice Activism Critical Solidarities in a Global Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780857424433, Seagull Books, February 2018
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
"Friendship as Social Justice Activism" brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here come from across the globe and...
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£25,00
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Enacting Pleasure A Response to Carol Gilligan's New Map of Love
ISBN: HB: 9781906497699, Seagull Books, May 2011
300 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 halftones
In her book "In a Different Voice", psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female. Since the publication of that rev...
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£26,50
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Guilty Males and Proud Females Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival
ISBN: HB: 9781906497521, Seagull Books, February 2011
268 pp., 23.9x16.3 cm, 13 halftones
"Guilty Males and Proud Females" is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy – the marriage of a god and goddes...
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£26,50
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Rebels, Wives, Saints Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times
ISBN: HB: 9781906497293, Seagull Books, October 2009
356 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm
In "Rebels, Wives, Saints", acclaimed scholar Tanika Sarkar continues her revolutionary scholarship on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. The colonial universe Sarkar describes in "Rebels, Wives, Saints" centers around symbols of wom...
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£22,00
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Censoring Sexuality
ISBN: HB: 9781905422562, Seagull Books, May 2008
160 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Despite Western culture's roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no place in the official cultures of Western societies. As late as the 19th Century, homosexuality was th...
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£15,00
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Phobic and the Erotic The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India
ISBN: PB: 9781905422142, Seagull Books, November 2005
518 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 20 halftones
A flamboyantly eclectic anthology that explodes the myths about the lines which divide us – the heterosexual from the homosexual, the normative from the "alternative", the phobic from the obsessive, the moral from the titillating, the academic from t...
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£24,00
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