Bodies beyond Binaries by Kate Imy, Teresa Segura-Garcia, Ele... - 9789087284558

Bodies beyond Binariesin Colonial and Postcolonial Asia\nAuthor(s): Kate Imy, Teresa Segura-Garcia, Elena Valdameri, Erica Wald\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Leiden University Press, Netherlands\nImprint: Leiden University Press\nISBN-13: 9789087284558, 978-9087284558\nSynopsis\n\""Bodies beyond Binaries' advances the historiographical debate around the body in colonial and postcolonial Asia. Opening new research avenues that go beyond the binaries that have sometimes permeated previous scholarly contributions, this book explores not just the direct colonial encounter, but also wider global interconnections and flows involved in the making of knowledge, cultural constructions, and techniques of the body. Throughout the volume, critical concepts such as gender, sexuality, race, class, caste, and religion intersect and dialogue with supposedly binary categories of corporeality such as ruled and unruly, emotional and trained, mobile and confined, and respectable and deviant. Problematise""