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



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