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Autore: | Puri Jyoti |
Titolo: | Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of gender and sexuality / / Jyoti Puri |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.3/0954 |
Soggetto topico: | Sex role - India |
Gender identity - India | |
Man-woman relationships - India | |
Women - India - Social conditions | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India |
ISBN: | 1-135-96265-0 |
1-280-31699-3 | |
0-203-90662-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779928103321 |
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