Men and Masculinities in South India

Osella, Caroline; Osella, Filippo

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“…These two moves both "police girls' sexuality because they are not allowed to go 'roaming around' at night" and help reproduce a masculine ideology of personal consumption and occupation of public spaces (Ramamurthy 2004: 761). For these young men, masculinity defined through consumption sits alongside masculinity defined by being a breadwinner (Osella and Osella 2006), two forms of being masculine that Ritty Lukose's (2009) lower-caste informants also struggle with as they make the transition from college life to adulthood. Meanwhile, Thomas Blom Hansen's study of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party in Mumbai in the 1990s details the rise of a hypermasculinity that simultaneously exaggerates and boasts of physical prowess, command of public space, and ritualized violence.…”

Section: The Sacrifice At the Border: A Reworked Violent Masculinitymentioning

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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization

Amrute¹

2015

Public Culture

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The protests initially provoked by the gang rape and murder of a physiotherapy student on a bus in New Delhi are a profound sign of dissent and disruption in contemporary India. To briefly recount the details of this case, on December 16, 2012, after robbing a carpenter, six men picked up a woman and her male friend in a private, off-duty bus. The men attacked both and raped the woman while driving around Delhi's streets, finally brutalizing her with a metal rod taken from the bus's luggage rack, pulling out her intestines, and dumping the two naked by the side of the road. The female victim was flown to Singapore, where she died in a hospital thirteen days after the attack. 1 The days following the rape saw an upsurge of protests on Delhi's streets against sexual violence and major coverage in Indian national and international news media. International press accounts, in particular, focused on what was called India's "rape culture," explaining the attack in terms of prevailing attitudes toward women in public as sexually available, police collusion in rape, and Public Culture 27:2

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Section: The Sacrifice At the Border: A Reworked Violent Masculinitymentioning

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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization

Amrute¹

2015

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“…The third phase has also witnessed a burgeoning interest in the critical study of masculinities in a global context and a growing body of scholarship on men and masculinities in non-Western societies (Louie and Low 2003;Mellström 2003;Roberson and Suzuki 2003;Chopra, Osella, and Osella 2004;Osella and Osella, 2006;Clark 2010;Ruspini et al 2011;Ford and Lyons 2012). This is because masculinity has been closely linked with globalization.…”

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Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China

Song¹,

Hird²

2014

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“…While changes in marriage trends among British Bangladeshis -a South Asian Muslim population with similar patterns of transnational marriage -may in some ways echo those identified here, the fact that the British Indian population, diverse in religious affiliation, appears to lag behind in the trend of increasing single parenthood raises questions about the underlying dynamics. Further research is also needed to capture men's perspectives, as men typically discuss marriage more reticently despite the fact that their lives also change dramatically upon marriage (Osella and Osella, 2006). This paper is an initial response, arguing for a need to shift the lens on British Asian marriage and kinship practices from notions of stasis to the specific processes underlying change in marital dynamics within Britain's ethnic minority populations.…”

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Marital instability among British Pakistanis: transnationality, conjugalities and Islam

Qureshi¹,

Charsley²,

Shaw³

2012

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms 1 Marital instability among British Pakistanis: transnationality, conjugalities and Islam AbstractThis article offers insights into the dynamics underlying an increase in marital instability in British Pakistani families, thus challenging stereotypes of British South Asian populations as representing 'old fashioned' families, with their lower rates of divorce in contrast with the wider British population. In addition to problems of compatibility, domestic violence and infidelity, we explore dynamics that may be more specific to the British Pakistani population, namely the transnational nature of many marriages, attitudes to parental involvement in arranging marriages, and the place of Islam. We suggest that, while arranged marriages were conventionally seen as safer than love marriages, both young people and their parents may now be viewing arranged marriages as riskier. In an arranged marriage that brings family approval but not personal fulfilment, young people are increasingly supported to divorce and remarry, with a greater degree of personal say in spouse selection.

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Men and Masculinities in South India

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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization

Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization

Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China

Marital instability among British Pakistanis: transnationality, conjugalities and Islam

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