Dr Srivastava is a social anthropologist teaching at the School of Communication and creative Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne. He is presently Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.Apart from articles in books and journals, Dr Srivastava is the author of Constructing Post-colonial India: National Character and the Doon School; co-author of Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age ; and co-editor of Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia.

"[T]he author largely succeeds in demonstrating that the narratives of sexuality and the modern self are markers of class distinctions. Srivastava shows how competing segments of the middle class make use of variously coded conceptualisations of emotional intimacy and conjugal modernity to establish their status." - Manish K. Thakur, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India; Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 2010

• 1. Introduction: Sexual Swarajya, Debased Muslims and Uncontrollable Tribals: Subcontinental Sex Questions 2. Instruction for Utopia: 'Sane Sex Living', Eugenics, and the Making of a Transnational Modernity in the Early 20th Century 3. The Idea of Lata Mangeshkar: Hindu Sexuality, the Girl Child and Heterosexual Desire in the Time of the Five Year Plans 4. The Masculinity of Dis-Location: Commodities, the Metropolis and the Sex-Clinics of Delhi and Mumbai 5. Pedestrian Desires: Footpath Pornography and the Aesthetics of Fluid Spaces 6. Threshold and Surplus Subjectivities: Sexology Darpan Makes Meanings in Hari Nagar 7. Among the Veg: Tacos and Baby Pizzas, Shekhar and Monica Make Silent, Unsatisfactory Love: Domesticating Sexuality 8. "A Rainbow of Wishes": Tupperware, Female Sexuality, Home, and the World 9. Conclusion: Complicating "Sexuality"

Dr Srivastava is a social anthropologist teaching at the School of Communication and creative Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne. He is presently Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.Apart from articles in books and journals, Dr Srivastava is the author of Constructing Post-colonial India: National Character and the Doon School; co-author of Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age ; and co-editor of Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia.

"[T]he author largely succeeds in demonstrating that the narratives of sexuality and the modern self are markers of class distinctions. Srivastava shows how competing segments of the middle class make use of variously coded conceptualisations of emotional intimacy and conjugal modernity to establish their status." - Manish K. Thakur, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India; Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 2010

• 1. Introduction: Sexual Swarajya, Debased Muslims and Uncontrollable Tribals: Subcontinental Sex Questions 2. Instruction for Utopia: 'Sane Sex Living', Eugenics, and the Making of a Transnational Modernity in the Early 20th Century 3. The Idea of Lata Mangeshkar: Hindu Sexuality, the Girl Child and Heterosexual Desire in the Time of the Five Year Plans 4. The Masculinity of Dis-Location: Commodities, the Metropolis and the Sex-Clinics of Delhi and Mumbai 5. Pedestrian Desires: Footpath Pornography and the Aesthetics of Fluid Spaces 6. Threshold and Surplus Subjectivities: Sexology Darpan Makes Meanings in Hari Nagar 7. Among the Veg: Tacos and Baby Pizzas, Shekhar and Monica Make Silent, Unsatisfactory Love: Domesticating Sexuality 8. "A Rainbow of Wishes": Tupperware, Female Sexuality, Home, and the World 9. Conclusion: Complicating "Sexuality"