Too hot to handle: The cultural politics of fire

Feminist Review

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-64

  Kapur, Ratna ^a  

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Author keywords

Agency; Fire; Homosexuality in India; Indian feminism; Indian lesbians; Law and culture; Pleasure and desire; Sexual subaltern

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034340133     PISSN: 01417789     EISSN: 14664380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014177800338963     Document Type: Article

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