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PROCESSES OF NEGOTIATING INTIMATE H
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT For their convictio
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ABSTRACT Through interview generate
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Bhadrasamaj- Respectable society im
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Saundarya- Emotional internal beaut
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The ‘Liberating’ Narrative/Disc
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Summary of Analyses: ..............
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negotiate and deal with these issue
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) Academic Contextualization Within
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practices of intimacy and analyze a
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that were at the heart of both foun
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also be explored in relation to mas
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In this context my research seeks t
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Appreciating Western academic schol
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only manifests itself in the public
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to love one another” (Beck and Be
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This double standard sexual reputat
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In this context of appreciating het
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‘woman’ as a collective politic
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satisfaction giving meaning to life
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This brings us back to the apprecia
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embedded in culture and history and
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same relation (Paul and Spencer, 20
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gender friendships reported (Allan,
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therefore never totally comprehensi
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understands this erotic as a ‘sha
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empirical study of friendship patte
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Hence, Banerjee argues that a conte
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In this contextual appreciation and
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and they have to be interpreted by
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postmodern turn. It links the micro
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1989). From a post-colonial feminis
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Bourdieusian Analysis of Class-Cult
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the individual” Contrarily he aff
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caste and class (Lakha, 1999: 265).
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home or the inner sphere (Chatterje
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of Bankim’s reading of the image
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ecognize the structural imperatives
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Western inspired romantic model of
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clue to the relational structure of
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Seymour, 1999). Cultural identity a
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) How do subjects negotiate, that i
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narrative and linguistic turns take
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The Ethnographic: Most commonly eth
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ealism is based on the view that th
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and ‘cultural narratives’ (Laum
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of, “then in our times”, I thou
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commitment is practised in and thro
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empirical methodology to a communic
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Third Generation Second Generation
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hadrasamaj’s constuction of Rabin
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simplistically read as a story of g
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Bengal. The distinctiveness of Beng
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2002: 124). An in-depth narrative q
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Since there is no one ‘correct’
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assured my interviewees a certain r
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eactions, for this may have been a
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Method of Analysis: The method of a
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and personal life that are understo
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Deconstructive discourse analysis i
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‘interactionist turn’, a post-s
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valorization of ‘brotherhood’.
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men continually seek for communal a
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Ronjon links adda to nostalgic imag
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eproducing the cultural imperatives
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extended and elevated bench-like co
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comfortable, secure and familiar ha
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extent, socially structured by one
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practices but are, in fact, shaped
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as Sundordi (adjective sundor means
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otherhood in male homosocial intima
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This narrative illustrates trans-na
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suggests the cross-cultural relianc
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Similar narratives across all gener
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perform family-like rituals and tra
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It is significant to note that stor
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“Precisely because I detest the s
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“Other things may change such as
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latant and visible (Seidler, 1989).
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homosocial bonding and loyalty is,
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‘innocuous’ ragging and informa
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male power; modern homosexual intim
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Through various cultural practices,
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knowledge and practice is an ongoin
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The topics discussed may have also
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on to an associated binary politics
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conditioned by sedimented structure
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friend with whom I can share these
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Situating ‘Woman’ and ‘Homo
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homogenous male self and space is u
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waste of time’ and moreover I don
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materialistic, public ‘work’ an
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afford this subversion of hetero-no
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The Generational Re-production of F
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and reproduce institutionalized het
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through a woman’s prioritization
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ief each other about how we are goi
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Dalia is highly disdainful of putti
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only practice a reflexive narrative
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possibility of such subversive homo
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not think of myself as just a house
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of the para) and provide cultural e
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women, the people of the para have
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successfully become so dominating a
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smell of the fragrance Natasha wear
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exaggerating gendered commonalities
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CHAPTER-6 NARRATIVES OF COUPLING: N
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often invoked to strategically circ
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exchanges of glances was a feeling
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eclipses the conditions of its own
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Her constant self-doubt and guilt t
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and sexual nature that was otherwis
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Pushpa’s imaginative space was in
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‘present/now’ and ‘past/then
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‘open’ and ‘flexible’ about
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disassociates the idea of respectab
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2000) but also generally an individ
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in this narrative, her earlier narr
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Therefore, what she thinks they thi
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constantly evoked in Priya’s repe
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argues, there is often a possible s
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free play of sentiment as by delibe
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1998, 2001). These empirical instan
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self and society through a critique
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In the way familial arrangement cre
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phase of de-mystification can, in f
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and subjects’ positioning within
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• these categories of intimacy an
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appreciate and then read in relatio
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Today, some women bear these signs,
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1999; Gross, 2005; Smart, 2007; Hea
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imaginings into neat dichotomous cl
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of a particular community and bodil
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Photo-6: Illustrates the homosocial
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(Mohanty, 1991). A direct and also
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new middle-class is concerned today
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and beliefs that distinguishes them
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“traditional”)...domestic (read
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