Living the body : embodiment, womanhood and identity in contemporary India / Meenakshi Thapan.
Material type: SetVolumes: Show volumesPublication details: New Delhi, India : Sage Publications India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2009.Description: xxi, 190 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9788178299013 (hard back)
- 8178299011 (hard back)
- 306.4 22
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research | 306.4 T3674l 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 01 | Not For Loan | 022958 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184) and index.
Introduction: An engagement with the sociology of embodiment -- Embodiment, identity and womanhood -- Cultures of adolescence -- Embodiment and womanhood in Femina -- The body in the mirror : embodiment, violence and identity -- The body as a weapon : embodiment, work and identity -- Aporiai of resistance.