Body Maps: Stories by South Asian Women

Name: Body Maps: Stories by South Asian Women
Brand: Zubaan
SKU: 9788189884024-G
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By Radha Chakravarty

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In a world that tends to equate the body with biology, and femininity with the reproductive function, these writers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka interrogate these assumptions and reinscribe the body as a source of resistance and self-empowerment. Identity, history, myth, scientific experiment, social heirarchies, sexuality, nationalism, violence, ethics and ecology are interwoven issues for which the body in these stories becomes a powerful signifier. Together, these bodymaps chart a subversive female geography that startles with its boldly inclusive vision.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 216
Release Date:: 2007-12-01
Publication Date:: 2007-12-01
Publisher:: Zubaan
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 8189884026

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