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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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=72864 |
| Подобни документи: |
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Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India. |
| Резюме: |
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 argues that these women's narratives are shaped by not only the nation-state, but by transnational processes as well. Woman, Body and Desire in Postcolonial Indiaconnects important issues of class an nationhood to the emerging sense of female identity in India, covering previously neglected topics such as menstruation, gay and straight sexual experience, sexual harassment and assault, marriage and motherhood. Puri discovers that attitudes about sexuality and gender are surprisingly similar in India and Western countries. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references ([209]-223) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0203906624 9780203906620 9780415921275 0415921279 9780415921282 0415921287 |