Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality

by Sudhir Kakar

Book Overview

Plumbing the hearts of women and men in India and exploring the relations they engage in, Sudhir Kakar gives us the first full-length study of Indian sexuality. His groundbreaking work explores India's sexual fantasies and ideals, the "unlit stage of desire where so much of our inner theater takes place."

Kakar's sources are primarily textual, celebrating the primacy of the story in Indian life. He practices a cultural psychology that distills...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226422801
• ISBN13: 9780226422800
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

There are too few books on the market on Eastern Indian sexuality and stories that form the basis for much insight into the Indian psyche. I highly recommend this book, I only wish Dr. Kakar would write a book of East Indian - American intimate dynamics...