South Asian Pornographies

Introduction-Towards an Incomplete Repertoire of South Asian Pornographies: Challenges, Potentials and Futures Part 1-Before Pornography: Sexology and Popular Sexual Discourses 1. Cast(e)ing and translating sex in the vernacular: the writings of Santram BA in Hindi 2. Purging the pornographic, discipling the sexual and edifying the public: pornography sex education and class in early to mid-twentieth century colonial Bengal Part 2-Art, Print Culture and Literature at the Edges of the Pornographic 3. A short history of the 'Blue-Photo': Bengali sex magazines and the visual empire of printed images (1940-1970) 4. Reading Anandalok: obscenity, cinema and other 'prohibitive' pleasures in 1970s-1990s Bengali print culture 5. Pornography and Indian miniature painting: the case of Avadh, India 6. 'Raped, outraged, ravaged': race, desire, and sex in the Indian empire 7. Between aunties: queering South Asian aunty porn Part 3-South Asian Porn and the Digital Turn 8. The X factors of sex: hijras, Victorian law, and digital porn in postcolonial India 9. Pleasure, bodies and risk: women's viewership of pornography in urban India 10. When celluloid pornography went digital: class and race in the Bangladeshi cut-piece online 11. Transgressions in Toonland: Savita Bhabhi, Velamma and the Indian adult comic 12. Capitalizing on desire: (re)producing and consuming class in Indian 'gay' pornography 13. 'Grindr is basically interactive porn': Ethnographic observations from Kolkata on queer intimacies and 'pic exchange' on Grindr and PlanetRomeo Part 4-Feminist and Minor Approaches to South Asian Pornographies 14. #PatriarchyKaPackup: mediating sexual discourse and the casteless feminist subject in Indian performance poetry 15. 'I am a porn star!" Sex and Sunny Leone unlimited in Bollywood 16. 'We give sex a good name': an Interview with Paromita Vohra 17. Confluences: of war porn and nationalism, at the limits 18. Porn, sexuality and expression in Sri Lanka: feminist debates and interventions