1st Edition
Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India Narratives of Gender and Sexuality
By Jyoti Puri
Copyright 1999
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Jyoti Puri is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simmons College, Boston.
"[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
