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Love, Eroticism & Female Sexuality in Classical Sanskrit Literature - Seventh-Thirteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
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Love, Eroticism & Female Sexuality in Classical Sanskrit Literature - Seventh-Thirteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
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This book is an attempt to analyse the conception of kama in the
early-medieval classical Sanskrit literary tradition from a gender
perspective. By reading against the grain, the author has tried to
illuminate 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
dharmasastra, kamasastra, Lokayata, tantric, ayurvedic and the
asceptic philosophies. The author has further made a case for
seeking the prostitute sexuality diiferently from that of a
kulavadhu, i.e. a household woman. The treatment of the sexual
desire of mayavinis, raksasis, dakinis, and svairins 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 (srngari) 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, Bhavabhutis and Jayadevas
work deals with reciprocity and emotions in the sexual relations
between man and woman, while the masculine erotic tradition
authored by the srngari poets is marked by hegemonic masculinity in
which women exist solely as fetishized objects for exclusively male
erotic stimulation.
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