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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455245603321

Autore

Puri Jyoti

Titolo

Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of gender and sexuality / / Jyoti Puri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-280-31699-3

0-203-90662-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

305.3/0954

Soggetti

Sex role - India

Gender identity - India

Man-woman relationships - India

Women - India - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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.