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

by Jyoti Puri and Puri Jyoti

Book Overview

First published in 1999.Jyoti Puri draws on post-colonial and feminist theory to focus on how women in current-day India conceptualize their gender and sexuality. She provides a groundbreaking ethnographic study based on fifty-four middle- and upper-class Indian women, ranging from the ages of fifteen to thirty-eight. She argues that these women's narratives are shaped by not only the nation-state, but by transnational processes as well.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415921287
• ISBN13: 9780415921282
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"