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Fluid Masculinity: The case of Krishna

March 11, 2019March 25, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Leave a comment

As Rama becomes more and more the icon of “virile Hinduism” and the symbol of a new kind of hegemonic, patriarchal, masculinity, so Krishna is held up as the counterpoint: masculine but not man; gendered but fluid; and sexual but not bound by cultural or even biological norms.

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