Indian Sex LifePub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691196350.003.0007
Durba Mitra
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"Durba Mitra","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691196350.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691196350.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter examines the idealized Indian society through a feminist lens. It first begins with a summary of the major themes introduced in the previous chapters. Afterward, the chapter analyzes a work by a now well-known woman writer from Calcutta, Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, an early feminist thinker in India. Her short story “Sultana's Dream” (1905), is celebrated for its radical world-making of a society where women rule the outside world and seclude men in the home. From there, the chapter turns to another dreamscape concerned with the condition of Indian womanhood—S. C. Mookerjee's book, The Decline and Fall of the Hindus (1919), his study on the evolution of modern Indian society based in the ideals of Aryan society.","PeriodicalId":325626,"journal":{"name":"Indian Sex Life","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129878075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indian Sex LifePub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691196350.003.0005
Durba Mitra
{"title":"Evolution","authors":"Durba Mitra","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691196350.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691196350.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter accounts for the foundational place of deviant female sexuality in social evolutionary thought over the period between the 1860s and the 1950s. It begins by analyzing concepts of sexuality and patriarchal monogamy in European and American ethnology. The chapter then explores the widespread impact of the field of ethnology on the ideas of a set of social analysts in eastern India who produced original theories of Indian social development in the first decades of the twentieth century. Their theories united the science of female sexuality with philology, biology, ethnology, psychology, and sociology to create original models for the evolution of Indian society. The unification of diverse sexual practices through classifications of deviant female sex constituted the social as a discrete domain of inquiry. These publications in critical social theory emerged in India at a moment when social scientific disciplines had not yet undergone disciplinary differentiation. A distinguishing feature of these publications was a claim to expertise about female sexuality through the blending of different fields of knowledge. To conclude, the chapter briefly touches on how these multidisciplinary understandings of primitivity and evolutionary development continue to shape social thought in postcolonial India.","PeriodicalId":325626,"journal":{"name":"Indian Sex Life","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130781094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indian Sex LifePub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.9
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325626,"journal":{"name":"Indian Sex Life","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131689596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indian Sex LifePub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.10
{"title":"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325626,"journal":{"name":"Indian Sex Life","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130563499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indian Sex LifePub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.14
{"title":"INDEX","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvkjb4fc.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325626,"journal":{"name":"Indian Sex Life","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126854406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indian Sex LifePub Date : 2017-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9781400885213-011
Tom Cutterham
{"title":"A Note on the Type","authors":"Tom Cutterham","doi":"10.1515/9781400885213-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400885213-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325626,"journal":{"name":"Indian Sex Life","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132199327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}