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GENDER & CENSORSHIP
Brinda Bose (Ed.)
Rs 495 Hb 2006
(All rights available)
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The debate on censorship in India has hinged primarily on two issues— the depiction of sex in the various media, and the representation of events that could, potentially, lead to violent communal clashes. Censorship was institutionalised by the colonial British government, and has remained a much-contested government institution. In a multi-cultural society with diverse tastes and moral standards, who is to draw the line? And what reasonable curbs can be imposed on the freedom of expression? Can artistic merit be conflated with public good? Is the urge to purge the public arena of unnecessarily prurient and lascivious images actually in the interests of women and of society at large? |
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BRINDA BOSE
is Associate Professor at the Department of English, University of Delhi. Her areas of interest for teaching and research are primarily in modern, postmodern and postcolonial literatures; postcolonial, feminist and cultural theory; gender and culture/film studies in South Asia; postcolonial and interdisciplinary pedagogies. She has edited Translating Desire: The Politics of Gender and Culture in India (2003), and co-edited The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India (2007). |
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