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Redeeming the Kamasutra /
"The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
©2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The strange and the familiar in the Kamasutra. Class in the Kamasutra ; The life of a man-about-town ; The Kamasutra as a play ; The Kamasutra and the contemporary reader ; The positions
- The Kautilyan Kamasutra. The triple set of human aims ; The history of the three texts, and their intertextuality ; The indebtedness of the Kamasutra to the Arthashastra ; Basic similarities of form and argument ; Attitudes to low-life and kings ; Attitudes to other scholars ; Striking points of agreement ; Spying ; Testing ; The need to control the senses ; The Arthashastra and Kamasutra on sex ; Sex and politics
- The mythology of the Kamasutra. Mythological background ; Tales told to encourage women ; Tales told to warn men
- Women in the Kamasutra. The Kamasutra for women ; Women's rights ; Women's sexuality ; Sexual freedom ; Women's voices
- The third nature : gender inversions in the Kamasutra. Traditional and inverted Indian concepts of gender ; Same-sex men ; Sir Richard Burton on the "third nature" ; Same-sex women ; Bisexuality
- The mare's trap : the nature and culture of sex. Size matters ; The problem of desire ; Positional solutions ; Mechanical and pharmaceutical solutions ; The mare's trap ; Animals and humans : nature and culture ; The culture of the Kamasutra
- The rise and fall of Kama and the Kamasutra. Kama in the early history of India ; Detumescence under the British ; Sir Richard Burton's version of the Kamasutra ; The demise of Kama ; The rebirth of Kama.