Sex, Sexuality and Gender in the Delhi Metro Trains: A Semiotic Analysis
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Keywords
LGBT, Delhi Metro, Identity, Sex
Abstract
This paper explores the way sex, sexuality and gender are constructed in Delhi, India by using a semiotic understanding of reality whereby an individual is thought of as being subjectivized due to his being embedded in the socio-semantic text of a city full of signs which he/she interprets and constructs his identity through such a hermeneutical act. Within this socio-semantic text that the individual interprets, there are various determiners of interpretation and gender is one of them. This paper is a semiotic analysis of the text made by the collection of signs in the Delhi Metro trains. The purpose of this essay is to determine the ways in which the citizens of Delhi think of sex, sexuality and gender and analyze the ways in which these notions are reproduced on a daily basis through microcosmic texts like these signs in the Delhi metro trains.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, v. 6, issue 1, p. 177-185
Scholar Commons Citation
Gupta, Anuj, "Sex, Sexuality and Gender in the Delhi Metro Trains: A Semiotic Analysis" (2014). English Faculty Publications. 301.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/eng_facpub/301
