02545nam 2200637Ia 450 991045524560332120200520144314.01-280-31699-30-203-90662-4(CKB)111056485548636(EBL)180281(OCoLC)475886885(SSID)ssj0000273032(PQKBManifestationID)12064002(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273032(PQKBWorkID)10328372(PQKB)10034169(MiAaPQ)EBC180281(Au-PeEL)EBL180281(CaPaEBR)ebr10054635(CaONFJC)MIL31699(OCoLC)437082911(EXLCZ)9911105648554863619990414d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWoman, body, desire in post-colonial India[electronic resource] narratives of gender and sexuality /Jyoti PuriNew York Routledge19991 online resource (249 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-92127-9 0-415-92128-7 Includes bibliographical references ([209]-223) and index.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; 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.Sex roleIndiaGender identityIndiaMan-woman relationshipsIndiaWomenIndiaSocial conditionsElectronic books.Sex roleGender identityMan-woman relationshipsWomenSocial conditions.305.3/0954Puri Jyoti883908MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455245603321Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India1974063UNINA