Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Speaking Tiger BooksISBN-13:9789387693289ISBN-10:9387693287UPC:9789387693289Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Social History, Human SexualityBook Topic:SouthSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SC8QAZ090Q
Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India
'Elegant, lucid and funny, this book will appeal to as many readers as there are desires.'--Shohini Ghosh
'The history of desire in India, ' writes Madhavi Menon in this splendid book, 'reveals not purity but impurity as a way of life. Not one answer, but many. Not a single history, but multiple tales cutting across laws and boundaries.' In Bhakti poetry, Radha and Krishna disregard marital...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Speaking Tiger BooksISBN-13:9789387693289ISBN-10:9387693287UPC:9789387693289Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Social History, Human SexualityBook Topic:SouthSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SC8QAZ090Q
Menon, Madhavi: - 'Madhavi Menon' is professor of English at Ashoka University, and writes on desire and queer theory. She is the author of 'Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama; Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film'; and 'Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism'. She is also the editor of 'Shakesqueer: A Queer...
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