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UNINA9910779928103321 |
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Autore |
Puri Jyoti |
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Titolo |
Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of gender and sexuality / / Jyoti Puri |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-96265-0 |
1-280-31699-3 |
0-203-90662-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sex role - India |
Gender identity - India |
Man-woman relationships - India |
Women - India - Social conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references ([209]-223) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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