ABSTRACT

In the 1930s, Trilok Singh Vaid, a celebrated Sikh and Punjabi writer and Ayurvedic practitioner wrote a series of books on conjugal health and ideal masculinity in which he articulated a conjugal-domestic masculinity, which he termed Patnibrata: men who will love their wives, respect their wives' consent, and form a happy dyadic unit with them. In this paper, I argue that (a) transnational sexology and women's movement in India necessitated this new model of masculinity, and (b) conjugal-domestic masculinity reconceptualised gender roles, but more importantly, sought to empower young men as heads of their household and as independent subjects.

摘要

20世纪30年代，著名的锡克教和旁遮普作家兼阿育吠陀实践者特里洛克·辛格·瓦伊德（Trilok Singh Vaid）写了一系列关于夫妻健康和理想男性气质的书籍，在书中他阐述了一种夫妻家庭男性气质，他称之为Patnibrata：男人会爱自己的妻子，尊重妻子的同意，并与她们形成幸福的二元关系。在本文中，我认为（a）印度的跨国性学和妇女运动需要这种新的男性气质模式，以及（b）夫妻家庭男性气质重新概念化了性别角色，但更重要的是，寻求赋予年轻男性作为户主的权力并作为独立主体。