Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Synopsis
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.
Woman, Bodyand Desire in Postcolonial India connects important issues of class an nationhood to the emerging sense of female identity in India, covering previously neglected topics such as menstruation, gay and straight sexual experience, sexual harassment and assault, marriage and motherhood. Puri discovers that attitudes about sexuality and gender are surprisingly similar in India and Western countries.
Synopsis
The Lightman historian duo profiles the lives of women from archaic Greece in the seventh century BCE to the fall of Rome in 476 CE. Their subjects come from throughout the Greek and Roman world, and include poet Julia Balbilla of second-century BCE Greece; Boudicca, British ruler of the Iceni in the first century; Egyptian queen Cleopatra III in the second century BCE; and Eurydice, political and military leader in Macedonia and Egypt in the fourth and third centuries BCE. Occasional coins are the only illustration. The accounts are suitable for high-school and undergraduate students and general readers.
Description
Includes bibliographical references ([209]-223) and index.