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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: xiv, 234 pISBN:
  • 9780203906620
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
ch. 1. Fictions of identity -- ch. 2. Sex, sexuality, and the nation-state -- ch. 3. Docile and disruptive : narratives on menarche and menstruation -- ch. 4. Tensions of sexual respectability : accounts of sexual aggression -- ch. 5. Negotiating the norm : speaking of heterosexual desire -- ch. 6. Rethinking the requirements : of marriage and motherhood -- ch. 7. Hybrid and hyphenated : reading queer narratives -- ch. 8. Conclusion : considering new courses or stoking fire.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index.

ch. 1. Fictions of identity -- ch. 2. Sex, sexuality, and the nation-state -- ch. 3. Docile and disruptive : narratives on menarche and menstruation -- ch. 4. Tensions of sexual respectability : accounts of sexual aggression -- ch. 5. Negotiating the norm : speaking of heterosexual desire -- ch. 6. Rethinking the requirements : of marriage and motherhood -- ch. 7. Hybrid and hyphenated : reading queer narratives -- ch. 8. Conclusion : considering new courses or stoking fire.

Also available in print edition.

Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.

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