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Living the body : embodiment, womanhood and identity in contemporary India / Meenakshi Thapan.
LIBRA HQ1075.5.I4 T43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thapan, Meenakshi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity--India.
- Gender identity.
- Human body--Social aspects--India.
- Human body.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- India.
- Sex role--India.
- Sex role.
- Women--India--History.
- Women.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 190 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009.
- Summary:
- This book explores the development of a sociology of embodiment in the context of women's lives in contemporary, urban India. Through a critical analysis of gender and class, the author unravels the complexities that are intrinsic to the multilayered and fluid construction of woman's identity in relation to embodiment.
- Living the Body: Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India unfolds an understanding of women's experience of embodiment by a careful analysis of the facts gathered from an Indian metropolis. The author brings out numerous voices representing multiple subjectivities through interviews of working class slum women, professional upper-class women, adolescent young women in secondary schools and in a slum, and the visual and textual representation of women in a women's magazine in English.
- The book will be a compelling read for academicians and students working in the fields of sociology, women's studies, communication and media studies, anthropology, sexuality and gender studies. It would also interest a wide urban readership, especially NGOs and all those concerned about women's and gender issues.
- Contents:
- Introduction: An engagement with the sociology of embodiment
- Embodiment, identity and womanhood
- Cultures of adolescence
- Embodiment and womanhood in Femina
- The body in the mirror : embodiment, violence and identity
- The body as a weapon : embodiment, work and identity
- Aporiai of resistance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-184) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788178299013
- 8178299011
- OCLC:
- 228363562
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