Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India : narratives of gender and sexuality /
Jyoti Puri draws on post-colonial and feminist theory to focus on how women in current-day India conceptualize their gender and sexuality. She provides a groundbreaking ethnographic study based on fifty-four middle- and upper-class Indian women, ranging from the ages of fifteen to thirty-eight. She...
| Основен автор: | Puri, Jyoti. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India. |
Съдържание:
- Ch. 1. Fictions of identity
- ch. 2. Sex, sexuality, and the nation-state
- ch. 3. Docile and disruptive : narratives on menarche and menstruation
- ch. 4. Tensions of sexual respectability : accounts of sexual aggression
- ch. 5. Negotiating the norm : speaking of heterosexual desire
- ch. 6. Rethinking the requirements : of marriage and motherhood
- ch. 7. Hybrid and hyphenated : reading queer narratives
- ch. 8. Conclusion : considering new courses or stoking fire.