This ethnographic study based on 54 middle- and upper-class Indian women connects issues of class and nationhood to the emerging sense of female identity in India. It covers topics such as menstruation, gay and straight sexual experience, sexual harassment and assault, marriage and motherhood. Jyoti Puri discovers that attitudes about sexuality and gender are surprisingly similar in India and Western countries.
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[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, June 2000
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, Vol. 26.1
–Contemporary Sociology
A groundbreaking study of class, gender, nationhood, & identity in India...Unique in its linkage of postcolonial & sexuality studies....
–Sociological Abstracts, June 2000
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, Vol. 26.1
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Jyoti Puri is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simmons College, Boston.
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Listening to the interview tapes is like visiting old acquaintances. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transnational cultural discourses, queer narratives, transnational cultural processes, menstrual restrictions, hegemonic codes, male sexual aggressors, putative notions, sexual respectability, sex education literatures, alternative sexual identities, direct grip, early menstruation, national cultural tradition, erotic sexuality, transnational discourses, sex education materials, alternative sexualities, women recount, sexual aggression, menstrual taboos, lesbian narratives, conjugal families, transnational alliances, menstrual pollution, watching pornography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Asian, United States, Teenagers Ask, The Doctor Answers, Classical Age, Less Than Gay, Third World, Lotus of Another Color, Problems of Adolescent Sexuality, Sbarir Ki Jankari New!
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Listening to the interview tapes is like visiting old acquaintances. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transnational cultural discourses, queer narratives, transnational cultural processes, menstrual restrictions, hegemonic codes, male sexual aggressors, putative notions, sexual respectability, sex education literatures, alternative sexual identities, direct grip, early menstruation, national cultural tradition, erotic sexuality, transnational discourses, sex education materials, alternative sexualities, women recount, sexual aggression, menstrual taboos, lesbian narratives, conjugal families, transnational alliances, menstrual pollution, watching pornography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Asian, United States, Teenagers Ask, The Doctor Answers, Classical Age, Less Than Gay, Third World, Lotus of Another Color, Problems of Adolescent Sexuality, Sbarir Ki Jankari New!
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- ROMANTIC LONGINGS: LOVE CL T by Seidman on 5 pages
- Hindu Women and the Power of Ideology by Vanaja Dhruvarajan on 5 pages
- Indian Women: Myth and Reality by Jaspdhara Bagchi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Reform, Sexuality and the State (Contributions to Indian Sociology. Occasional Studies, 7) by Patricia Uberoi on page 104, and Back Matter
- Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle by Floya Anthias on page 12, and Back Matter
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