Love in a Different Climate keyword-poliitical-affects Contributors: Paul Delany

Contributors: Paul Delany

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Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time

In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy

Love in a Different Climate keyword-poliitical-affects Contributors: Paul DelanyIn this carefully researched and finely written work, Jeremy Seabrook deals with subjects rarely discussed in Western narratives about South Asia. Going beyond a straightforward contextualisation of the gatoei (lady boys) in Thailand and the hijara (eunuchs) of India, he unravels the less familiar and more complex territory of homosexual and homoerotic encounters in general, and asks how valid Western models of sexual identity are in the South Asian