Shah, S: Love, Eroticism & Female Sexuality in Classical San Seventh-Thirteeth Centuries
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.2009
Herausgeber
Shalini ShahVerlag
Manohar BooksSeitenzahl
248
Maße (L/B/H)
22.7/17.5/2 cm
Gewicht
650 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-81-7304-831-9
This book is an attempt to analyse the conception of k?ma in the early-medieval classical Sanskrit literary tradition from a gender perspective. By reading against the grain, the author has tried to illumine the sexual status of women within the different genres of these classical Sanskrit sources.
The book highlights that far from being a unitary homogeneous category with only a certain kind of sexual status, women and their sexuality have been conceived differently in different philosophical schools, be they dharma??stra, k?ma??stra, Lok?yata, tantric, ayurvedic and the ascetic philosophies.
The author has further made a case for seeing the prostitute sexuality differently from that of a kulavad?, i.e. a household woman. The treatment of the sexual desire of m?y?vinis, r?k]sas?s, d?kinis, and svairi]n?s too places them in an all-together different category from the other women of patriarchy.
This book also argues in favour of the validity of talking in terms of love (prema) tradition in contra-distinction to an erotic (?_r\ng?r?) tradition in the classical Sanskrit sources of the early medieval period. The basis for this binary division is predicated on the fact that in the love tradition, in which we include the poetry of the female poets, Bhavabh?ti's and Jayadeva's work deals with reciprocity and emotions in the sexual relations between man and woman, while the masculine erotic tradition authored by the ?_r\ng?r? poets is marked by hegemonic masculinity in which women exist solely as fetishized objects for exclusively male erotic stimulation.
The book highlights that far from being a unitary homogeneous category with only a certain kind of sexual status, women and their sexuality have been conceived differently in different philosophical schools, be they dharma??stra, k?ma??stra, Lok?yata, tantric, ayurvedic and the ascetic philosophies.
The author has further made a case for seeing the prostitute sexuality differently from that of a kulavad?, i.e. a household woman. The treatment of the sexual desire of m?y?vinis, r?k]sas?s, d?kinis, and svairi]n?s too places them in an all-together different category from the other women of patriarchy.
This book also argues in favour of the validity of talking in terms of love (prema) tradition in contra-distinction to an erotic (?_r\ng?r?) tradition in the classical Sanskrit sources of the early medieval period. The basis for this binary division is predicated on the fact that in the love tradition, in which we include the poetry of the female poets, Bhavabh?ti's and Jayadeva's work deals with reciprocity and emotions in the sexual relations between man and woman, while the masculine erotic tradition authored by the ?_r\ng?r? poets is marked by hegemonic masculinity in which women exist solely as fetishized objects for exclusively male erotic stimulation.
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