The sexual life of English
Subtitle: caste and desire in modern India
By: Shefali Chandra
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780822352600; 9780822352273
Subjects: Social aspects; English language; Languages; Women; Study and teaching; Education; Language and sex; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Learning gender, knowing English : an introduction; title: "The prudent and cautious engrafting of English upon our female population" : pedagogy and performativity; title: The language of the bedroom : mimicry, masculinity and the sexual power of English; title: "A new generation of hipless and breastless women is coming to the forefront in Europe and America" : literature, social class and the wider world of English; title: "I shall read pretty English stories to my mother and translate them into Marathi for her..." : widowhood, virtue and the secularization of caste; title: "I began to wonder why I had ever begun to learn English" : desire, labor and the trans-regional orientation of caste; title: The first Indian woman to taste "the sweets of an English education" : Dosebai Jessawalla and the "march of advancement in the face of obloquy"; title: Epilogue : "I am an Indian. I have no language" : Parvatibai Athavale and the limits to English.