Issue In Focus

Reproductive Technologies – A Feminist Analysis
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Reproductive Technologies – A Feminist Analysis

In the last two decades the use of reproductive technologies[1] (RTs) has become an inevitable and often indispensable part of…
By Rupsa Mallik
July 1, 2015
Reproductive Technologies – A Feminist Analysis
Pleasure and Sex: Non-Committed Sexual Relationships in Urban India
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Pleasure and Sex: Non-Committed Sexual Relationships in Urban India

Academic scholarship, popular culture and media-generated sex surveys are only beginning to understand ‘pre-marital’ sex among young people in India….
By Ketaki Chowkhani
June 1, 2015
Pleasure and Sex: Non-Committed Sexual Relationships in Urban India
The Conundrum of Choice: Marriage, Family and Sexuality
Painting of women sitting on the ground cross legged. One is rubbing the back of another. They are all looking solemn.
The Conundrum of Choice: Marriage, Family and Sexuality

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” Leo Tolstoy The year 2014 as…
By Pooja Badarinath
May 1, 2015
The Conundrum of Choice: Marriage, Family and Sexuality
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists
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Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists

The rabbit and the monster is a story about a baby rabbit all alone in a jungle trying to escape…
By Shikha Aleya
April 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing
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Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing

… and the Award goes to… … Vasilyev’s wife … … for having birthed the maximum number of children. I…
By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2015
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
A man sits leisurely with his legs on his chair in a theatre. The audience chairs are coloured red, and are numbered. Many more men who are out-of-focus in this picture sit in similar fashion in rows behind him, looking at the screen.
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery

I have great respect for Michel Foucault and his views on sexuality in our present era. While speaking on the…
By Sonia Soans
February 1, 2015
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
Dances of Desire: From Devadasis to Modern Storytellers
A man and a woman perform Kathakali on stage, wearing typical Kathakali costumes of red and white and elaborate headgear. A lamp is lit on the stage. Their makeup and dresses show beautifully in contrast to the darkened stage.
Dances of Desire: From Devadasis to Modern Storytellers

It is not entirely impossible to imagine that classical Indian dance is timeless or that the stories narrated in these…
By Shweta Krishnan
January 1, 2015
Dances of Desire: From Devadasis to Modern Storytellers
BEYOND THE SIMPLE FORMULAS
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BEYOND THE SIMPLE FORMULAS

‘Woman? It’s simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female –…
By Shweta Krishnan
December 1, 2014
BEYOND THE SIMPLE FORMULAS
DESIRE AGAINST DESIRE
Photo of a female protester holdingup the sign, "just had my first legal sex"
DESIRE AGAINST DESIRE

Post the historic Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court in July 2009, a prominent English news magazine carried…
By Oishik Sircar
December 1, 2014
DESIRE AGAINST DESIRE
ISSUE IN FOCUS: SEXUAL RIGHTS
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ISSUE IN FOCUS: SEXUAL RIGHTS

It may be useful to visualize sexual rights as a large tree with deep roots and a vast canopy of…
By Radhika Chandiramani
December 1, 2014
ISSUE IN FOCUS: SEXUAL RIGHTS
Loitering while Female…
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Loitering while Female…

When one travels as a woman or indeed as someone who is not an upper caste, middle or upper class,…
By Shilpa Phadke
November 1, 2014
Loitering while Female…
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
Neenu Kewlani (centre), Gopika Anand (right) and Divya Arora. the winners of the first Miss Wheelchair India contest, decked up in colourful sarees and makeup
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions

… the heroine an amputee on a microprocessor controlled prosthetic leg with a hydraulic foot and ankle system raises her…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2014
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media
A cartoon illustration of a clitoris with a face drawn on it, the caption below it reads, 'making masturbation female friendly'
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media

Five snippets from three months. In August, Indian actress Poonam Pandey dons a bikini for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge…
By Bishakha Datta
October 1, 2014
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media
Sports: Hegemonic Masculinities And The Feminist Conundrum
A black and white picture of an all-male cricket team. They are dressed in white jerseys with green borders and white trousers. A few of them wear caps.
Sports: Hegemonic Masculinities And The Feminist Conundrum

As a teenager, I played tennis with friends, both male and female. Mostly we played with whoever was available to…
By Shweta Krishnan
September 1, 2014
Sports: Hegemonic Masculinities And The Feminist Conundrum
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!
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Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!

The Union Budget, 2014 presented by the newly elected government a few weeks ago includes various provisions for disabled persons…
By Rupsa Mallik
August 1, 2014
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!
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