Question of Silence

Mary John is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi. Her book Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory and Postcolonial Histories (1996) has been co-published by the University of California Press and Oxford University Press, Delhi. Current research interests include the history of the Indian women's movement, and the formation of women's studies, international feminism and problems of globalisation.Janaki Nair is Fellow at the Madras Institute of Development Studies and is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore. She has written on the social, cultural and political history of modern India. She has published widely in Indian and international journals. Her publications include Women and Law in Colonial India (Kali for Women, 1996) and Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore (Sage, 1998). She has also produced and directed 'After the Gold', a documentary film of the Kolar gold fields (Betcam Video, 1997).

• 1. Introduction: A Question of Silence? - Mary E. John and Janaki Nair2. Unravelling the Kamasutra - Kumkum Roy3. Offences agaist Marriage - Samita Sen4. 'Left to the Imagination': Indian nationalisms and female sexuality - Tejaswini Niranjana5. Reproductive Bodies and Regulated Sexuality - Anandhi S.6. Comrades-in-Arms - U. Vindhya7. Sexuality and the Film Apparatus - Ravi Vasudevan8. Citizenship and its Discontents - Susie Tharu9. Inventing Saffron History - Uma Chakravarti10. Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities - Kalpana Ram11. On Bodily Love and Hurt - V. Geetha12. Enforcing Cultural Codes - Prem Chowdhry13. Globalisation, Sexuality and the Visual Field - Mary E.John