Sakhiyani

Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India

Giti Thadani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-8703-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Giti Thadani is a founder member of the Sakhi collective and journal of contemporary and historical lesbian life in India.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Glossary
1. Lesbian Invisibility
2. The Dual Feminine
3. The Myths of Usha and Urvashi
4. The Control of Lesbian Sexuality
5. Legacies of Colonialism
6. Westernization
7. Love and Death
8. Lesbian Identities
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 236 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4742-8703-4 / 1474287034
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-8703-6 / 9781474287036
Zustand	Neuware