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Having largely focused on how notions of obscenity and sexuality, and the domestic, social and public spaces of women were reworked in the writings of Hindu publicists, we now turn to identity politics and the making of the ‘Other’: i.e. the relationship between Hindu identity, gender, and constructions of the Muslim male.
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Gupta, C. (2001). ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Anxious Hindu Masculinity and the ‘Other’. In: Sexuality, Obscenity, Community. Comparative Feminist Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230108196_6
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