Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects

Comparative Feminist Studies

by Suparna Bhaskaran

Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990 The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts in small towns around India and the simultaneous evolution of the modern homophobia and lesbian NGOs. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization.

Genres: LGBT, Nonfiction, India, Gender, Queer

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004