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Sakhiyani eBook

Lesbian Desire In Ancient And Modern India

by Giti Thadani
language: english
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, October of 2016 ‧
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The product of many years of research, this unique book presents fascinating perspectives on contemporary lesbian life in India and unravels some of the history of lesbian desire from centuries past.
Through detailed examination of mythology, cosmology, ancient art and artefacts and her exegesis of ancient Sanskrit texts, Thadani constructs a tapestry of feminine kinship, genealogy and sexual or erotic bonding between women (sakhiyani) in ancient India. The author offers an historical perspective on the effect of colonization upon lesbian identities in India, showing how women were viewed by Western imperialists either as soft victims or as sexually dangerous, possessing an overgrown clitoris and in need of heterosexual domestication.
The second half of the book focuses on contemporary lesbian realities and issues, including lesbian marriages, suicide pacts, forging lesbian space, lesbian human rights, lesbophobia, sexual exile and the different construction of gender, family and possible kinship alliances.

Sakhiyani

Lesbian Desire In Ancient And Modern India

by Giti Thadani

Property Description
ISBN: 9781474287043
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Release Date: October of 2016
Language: English
Pages: 160
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility: PDF para ADE
Collection: Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > Asia, Pacific and Oceania
EAN: 9781474287043

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