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Violence is embedded in our everyday. We encounter not only its overt, raw, and brutal nature but also the deeply buried invisible and insidious forms that normalize violence in the collective conscience, making it less noticeable and more tolerable.
This volume opens out the field of violence studies with a focus on its myriad habitations and experiences in India. It interrogates the numerous ways in which omnipresent violence is interpreted and represented, and ...
The book views the power of media in transforming Indian society as a result of globalisation. It traces the emergence of the media-moulded society of today where nothing is beyond the media’s reach, with a blurring of the private and the public. It discusses the consequences of the contemporary media in action. With wide-ranging subject content and presenting diverse viewpoints, the essays here discuss the transformation of the reading public as well as ...
The volume addresses the relationship between sex, gender and sexuality and probes aspects relating to history, legality, religion, class and politics and power. It takes up themes such as colonial sexologists particularly their writings, pulp literature, family courts, queer imagery in the Hindu nationalistic imagination and laws on prostitution and perversion, and depiction of romance in the Indian mass media. It examines the established patterns of research on ...