Being Janana: Language and Sexuality Contemporary India

Along with their desire for other men, maintain ostensibly heteronormatively and culturally defined masculine positions. This book argues for an intersectional approach to understanding life worlds and situates subjectivity in dialogue with social, cultural, linguistic, and legal happenings. In engaging with the full complexity of identities and experience, Ila Nagar calls for a reassessment of gender categories and a new understanding of power and sexuality amidst emerging Indian modernities. Derived from ethnographic research conducted over a period of twelve years, this book also reflects on the interaction between social actors and researchers, and critically examines the use of ethnography as a method in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. It will be of interest to scholars from Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Linguistics.