Research Catalog

Title

Embodiment : essays on gender and indentity / edited by Meenakshi Thapan.

Publication

Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thapan, Meenakshi.
• Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.

Description

xiii, 340 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Papers presented at an international workshop held in 1994.

Series Statement

Gender studies

Uniform Title

Gender studies (Delhi, India)

Subjects

• Gender identity > India > Congresses
• India > Religious life and customs > Congresses
• Sex role > India > Congresses
• Human body > Social aspects > India > Congresses

Note

• "Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : gender and embodiment in everyday life / Meenakshi Thapan -- Scandal in high places : discourses on the chaste Hindu woman in late nineteenth century Bengal / Tanika Sarkar -- Female sexuality and community in Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar Ganga Opar Ganga / Jasodhara Bagchi -- Abducted and widowed women : questions of sexuality and citizenship during partition / Urvashi Butalia -- Femininity, space and the female body : an anthropological perspective / Seemanthini Niranjana -- Femininity and the body of female ballet dancers in the Netherlands / Anna Aalten -- Dharma and desire, freedom and destiny : rescripting the man-woman relationship in popular Hindi cinema / Patricia Uberoi -- Femininity and its discontents : woman's body in intimate relationships / Meenakshi Thapan -- The witch in the category : a cultural approach to menstrual symptomatology / Punam Zutshi -- Prostitution : the contemporary feminist discourse / Jean D'Cunha -- The impossible subject : caste in the scene of desire / Susie Tharu -- Femininity and sexual difference : a critical reading of Helene Cixous / Vidhu Verma -- Women and work : from housewifization to androgyny / Susan Visvanathan -- Shame and control : sexuality and power in feminist discourse in India / Kalpana Viswanath.

Call Number

JFD 00-9349

ISBN

0195641795

LCCN

97914016

OCLC

40706172

Title

Embodiment : essays on gender and indentity / edited by Meenakshi Thapan.

Imprint

Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Series

Gender studies

Gender studies (Delhi, India)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Thapan, Meenakshi.

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.

Research Call Number

JFD 00-9349