عنوان

Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India :

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0203906624

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0415921279

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0415921287

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1280316993

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6610316996

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9780203906620

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9781280316999

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Title Proper

Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

narratives of gender and sexuality /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jyoti Puri.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1999.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references ([209]-223) and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Text of Note

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.

Title

Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India.

International Standard Book Number

0415921279

Gender identity-- India.

Man-woman relationships-- India.

Sex role-- India.

Women-- India-- Social conditions.

Gender identity.

Man-woman relationships.

Sex role.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gender Studies.

Women-- Social conditions.

India.

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SOC-- 032000

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Edition

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Book number

Puri, Jyoti.

Date of Transaction

20201208061910.0

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