reading list

Gever, M., Greyson, J. and Parmar, P. (1993) Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge. (s~aw), (cr), (cini), (w)

Wolmark, J. (1999) Cybersexualities: A Reader in Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace, Edinburgh University Press. (cr), (cini), (w), (cy), (so)

Burrows, J. (2010) A Choreographer’s Handbook, Routledge. (cr), (cini)

Srinivasan, P. (2011) Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor, Philadelphia, Temple University Press. (cr), (w)

Dwyer, R. (2014) Bollywood’s India: Hindi cinema as a guide to contemporary India, London, Reaktion Books. (c), (cr), (cini), (w)

Revell, I. and Shin, S. [editors] (2024) Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear, London, Silver Press. (cr), (w), (q)

Bharti, G. [editor] (1982 - 1983) The Service (Issues 1, 5, 8 and 10) Birmingham, authorised by Bhagwan Valmiki Sabha Birmingham. (s~a), (s~aw), (v), (b), (co)

Richman, P. [editor] (1991) Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia,Berkeley, University of California Press. (s~a), (c), (cr)

Bhanot, T.R. [editor] Singh, P.P. and Gopal, G. [art work], (1992) Ramayana (Parts 1 - 10) Delhi, Dreamland Publications. (s~a), (s~aw), (v)

Leslie, J. (2003) Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki, Hampshire, Ashgate. (s~a), (v), (cr), (w)

Rege, S. (2013) Against the Madness of Manu, New Delhi, Navayana. (s~a), (s~aw), (w), (c), (cr),

Zelliot, E. (2013) Ambedkar’s World - The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement, New Delhi, Navayana. (s~a), (cr),

Ambedkar, B.R. (2018) Annihilation of Caste, New Delhi, Rupa Publications India Pvt. (s~a), (s~aw), (cr), (w)

Dalwai, S. (2019) Bans & Bar Girls, New Delhi, Women Unlimited. (s~a), (s~aw), (w), (cr)

Yengde, S. (2019) Caste Matters, India, Penguin Random House. (s~a), (s~aw), (cr)

Wilkerson, I. (2020) Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, New York, Penguin Random House. (s~a), (cr)

Ambedkar, B.R. [author], George, A. and Anand S. [editors / annotators] (2020) Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men, New York, Columbia University Press. (s~a), (s~aw), (cr)

Lee, J. (2021) Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (s~a), (v), (cr)

Maitreya, Y. (2021) Singing/Thinking Anti-Caste, India, Panther’s Paw Publication. (s~a), (s~aw)

Soundararajan, T. (2022) The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition, North Atlantic Books. (s~a), (s~aw), (w), (cr)

Gopinath, G. (2005) Impossible Desires, Durham and London, Duke University Press. (s~a), (s~aw), (cr), (w)

Muñoz, J.E. (2009) Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, New York, New York University Press. (cr)

Patel, A.K. (2017) Productive Failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories, Manchester, Manchester University Press. (s~a), (s~aw), (cr)

Bradway, T. and Freeman, E. (2022) Queer kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form, Durham, Duke University Press. (cr)

Sukthankar, A. [editor] (2019) Facing The Mirror: Lesbian Writing From India, Penguin Random House India (s~a), (s~aw), (co), (w)

Patrick, K. (2023) Mrs. S, London, 4th Estate. (w), (f)

Fischer, B. (2023) The Adult, North Carolina, Algonquin Books. (w), (f)

Ensslin, F. and Klink, C. (2014) Aesthetics of the Flesh, Berlin, Sternberg Press. (q)

Gross, R.E. (2022) Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, W. W. Norton & Company. (w), (n-f)

Nerenberg, J. (2021) Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You, California, HarperOne.

Patil, A. (2008) Kari, India, HarperCollins India. (s~a, (s~aw), (w), (gn), (f)

Volga [author], Kumar, T.V. and Vijayasree, C. [translators] (2016) The Liberation of Sita, Harper Perennial. (s~a), (s~aw), (w), (v), (c)

Yagi, E [author], North, N. and Boyd, D. [translators] (2023) Diary of a Void, Vintage Publishing. (w), (f)

Krishna, N. (2010) Sacred Animals of India, New Delhi, Penguin Books India. (s~a), (s~aw), (meow), (bo)

Gillespie, K. (2018) The Cow With Ear Tag #1389, Chicago, University of Chicago Press. (bo)

Shinkai, M. and Nagakawa, N. [authors], Takemori G.T. [translator] (2022) She and her Cat, Great Britain, Doubleday. (meow)

Cheung, T. (2019) The Dream Dictionary from A to Z [Revised edition]: The Ultimate A-Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams, London, HarperElement (HarperCollins Publishers).

Cheung, T. (2020) The Encyclopedia of Birthdays [Revised edition]: Know Your Birthday. Discover Your True Personality. Reveal Your Destiny., London, HarperElement (HarperCollins Publishers).