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- Title
Dusky Countenances: Ambivalent Bodies and Desires in the Theosophical Society.
- Authors
Judge, Rajbir Singh
- Abstract
The article discusses how the sexual desires and attachments of theosophists exceeded colonial and theosophical demarcations, which sought to control and regulate sex to prevent interracial unions. Topics mentioned include involvement of circularity in using psychoanalysis to understand relations within the Theosophical Society, avenues of occultists to reconsider established ideas of race, gender, and sexuality, and liberatory space occupied by India within theosophy's theology.
- Subjects
LUST; THEOSOPHISTS; INTERRACIAL marriage; PSYCHOANALYSIS; OCCULTISTS; THEOSOPHICAL Society (Chennai, India)
- Publication
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 2, p264
- ISSN
1043-4070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/JHS27203