Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India Paul Chaney 9781138081697

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Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India Paul Chaney 9781138081697First 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