Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India : Narratives of Gender and Sexuality.

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Puri, Jyoti
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 1999.
Temas:
Sex role > India.
Gender identity > India.
Man-woman relationships > India.
Women > India > Social conditions.
Rôle selon le sexe > Inde.
Identité de genre > Inde.
Relations entre hommes et femmes > Inde.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Gender identity
Man-woman relationships
Sex role
Women > Social conditions
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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