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Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India : narratives of gender and sexuality / Jyoti Puri.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Puri, Jyoti.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--India.
- Sex role.
- Gender identity--India.
- Gender identity.
- Man-woman relationships--India.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking ethnographic study based on fifty-four middle- and upper-class Indian women of connects important issues of class and nationhood to the emerging sense of female identity in India.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Fictions of Identity; Sex, Sexuality, and the Nation-State; Docile and Disruptive Narratives on Menarche and Menstruation; Tensions of Sexual Respectability Accounts of Sexual Aggression; Negotiating the Norm Speaking of Heterosexual Desire; Rethinking the Requirements Of Marriage and Motherhood; Hybrid and Hyphenated Reading Queer Narratives; Conclusion Considering New Courses or Stoking Fire; Notes; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references ([209]-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-96265-0
- 1-280-31699-3
- 0-203-90662-4
- 9780203906620
- OCLC:
- 475886885
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