LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jyoti puri

2 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jyoti puri

  • Sexual States
    Jyoti Puri
    In Sexual States Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state. Since 2001 activists have attempted to rewrite Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which in addition to outlawing homosexual behavior is often used to prosecute a range of acti...
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  • Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India
    Jyoti Puri
    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 o...
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