Agency, intimacy, and rape jokes: an ethnographic study of young women and sexual risk in Chennai
In this article, I examine the circulation of jokes about sexual violence among young middle class women in the South Indian city of Chennai. Drawing on ethnographic research with undergraduate students in this city, I locate the rape joke in an ambivalent discourse of risk that conflates the possib...
Main Author: | Krishnan, S |
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Format: | Journal article |
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Wiley
2015
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