Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780415921275 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 248 str.

Jyoti Puri

Opis

This ethnographic study based on 54 middle- and upper-class Indian women connects issues of class and nationhood to the emerging sense of female identity in India. It covers topics such as menstruation, gay and straight sexual experience, sexual harassment and assault, marriage and motherhood. Jyoti Puri discovers that attitudes about sexuality and gender are surprisingly similar in India and Western countries.

Recenzje

"[A] fascinating exploration and analysis of the limits and possibilities of national and sexual identities in postcolonial India and a timely challenge to received ideas about tradition and western in the scholarship on sexualities in India." -- Contemporary Sociology
"A groundbreaking study of class, gender, nationhood, & identity in India...Unique in its linkage of postcolonial & sexuality studies..." -- Sociological Abstracts
"An engaging and valuable book. Puri's insightful and provocative exploration of the limits and possibilities of national and sexual identity in post-colonial India is a model for transnational feminist analysis...[T]his study provides a groundbreaking cartography of the regulation of heteronormative, urban middleclass womanhood." -- Chandra Mohanty
"Jyoti Puri's Women, Body and Desire in Post-Colonial India succesfully integrates interview data with a sophisticated and compelling theoretical analysis that engages directly with the topic of feminism and national identities." -- Atlantic

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Fictions of Identity; Chapter 2 Sex, sexuality, and the Nation-State; Chapter 3 Docile and Disruptive; Chapter 4 Tensions of Sexual Respectability; Chapter 5 Negotiating the Norm; Chapter 6 Rethinking the Requirements; Chapter 7 Hybrid and Hyphenated; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

O autorze

Jyoti Puri is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simmons College, Boston.