Abrasive, Soft and Ecological

The book innovatively interconnects theology, media, and politics in order to understand masculinity in terms of everydayness, virtual circulations, cinematic projections, musical ramifications and political assertions. It will be useful for scholars in the fields of Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology and Cultural Studies.

Kaustav Chakraborty teaches English at Southfield College, Darjeeling, India. He was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies and the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies.

1. Abrasive Masculinity and the Impossibility of Intimacy: Introducing Feminist-Queer Concerns 2. Bhakti, Feminine Morality and the Guru Cult: Thakur Anukulchandra and the Culturalization of Everyday Masculine Entitlements 3. The Calibrated Mardangi: Music, Movies and Male Supremacism 4. The Reincarnated Warrior Monk: Political Guru, Bulldozer Justice and Communal Muscularity 6. Grooming a Dheeth Masculinity: Mediatized Muscular Mentality in India's Hindi Belt 7. Soft Indian Men: The Vulnerable Masculinity of Gay and Feminine Cisgender Men 8. Masculinism and Its Discontents: Detoxifying the Mediatized Movement for Men's Rights in India 9. Ecomasculine Folk Knowledge of the Hindi Heartland: A Pedagogy of Unlearning 10. Masculinities We Can All Live with in India: An Inconclusion