{"product_id":"unruly-figures-navaneetha-mokkil-9780295745572","title":"Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of political protests. The 2014 \"Kiss of Love\" campaign garnered national attention, sparking controversy as images of activists kissing in public and dragged into police vans flooded the media. In \u003ci\u003eUnruly Figures\u003c\/i\u003e, Navaneetha Mokkil tracks the cultural practices through which sexual figures--particularly the sex worker and the lesbian--are produced in the public imagination. Her analysis includes representations of the prostitute figure in popular media, trajectories of queerness in Malayalam films, public discourse on lesbian sexuality, the autobiographical project of sex worker and activist Nalini Jameela, and the memorialization of murdered transgender activist Sweet Maria, showing how various marginalized figures stage their own fractured journeys of resistance in the post-1990s context of globalization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy bringing a substantial body of Malayalam-language literature and media texts on gender, sexuality, and social justice into conversation with current debates around sexuality studies and transnational feminism in Asian and Anglo-American academia, Mokkil reorients the debates on sexuality in India by considering the fraught trajectories of identity and rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Navaneetha Mokkil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295745576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295745572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Navaneetha Mokkil","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001126568191,"sku":"9780295745572","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa7ddbda-96b6-4c17-885c-59dfe644f07d.jpg?v=1751600143","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unruly-figures-navaneetha-mokkil-9780295745572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}