Living the body
Subtitle: embodiment, womanhood and identity in contemporary India
By: Meenakshi Thapan.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9788178299013
Subjects: Gender identity -- India; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- India; Sex role -- India; Women -- India -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: An engagement with the sociology of embodiment; title: Embodiment, identity and womanhood; title: Cultures of adolescence; title: Embodiment and womanhood in femina; title: The body in the mirror : embodiment, violence and identity; title: The body as a weapon : embodiment, work and identity; title: Aporiai of resistance.