Sakhiyani : Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India PDF
by Giti Thadani
Part of the Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections series
Description
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.
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- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781474287043
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781474287043
