Living the Body: Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India

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This book explores the development of a sociology of embodiment in the context of women’s lives in contemporary urban India. Through a critical analysis of gender and class, the author unravels the complexities that are intrinsic to the multi-layered and fluid construction of woman’s identity in relation to embodiment. Living the Body: Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India unfolds an understanding of women’s experience of embodiment by a careful analysis of the facts gathered from an Indian metropolis. The author brings out numerous voices representing multiple subjectivities through interviews of working class slum women, professional upper-class women, adolescent young women in secondary schools and in a slum, and the visual and textual representation of women in a women’s magazine in English. The book will be a compelling read for academicians and students working in the fields of sociology, women’s studies, communication and media studies, anthropology, sexuality and gender studies. It would also interest a wide urban readership, especially NGOs and all those concerned about women’s and gender issues.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Meenakshi Thapan

Meenakshi Thapan is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She was earlier a Professor at the Department of Education, University of Delhi (1989-2002) and a Fellow of the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (1993-95). Professor Thapan was elected the first C.R. Parekh Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University (1998) and was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Chicago (1995). she has previously published Life at School: An Ethnographic Study and has edited Embodiment: Essays on Gender and Identity and Anthropological Journeys: Reflections of Fieldwork. She has also contributed essays to edited volumes and published research articles in professional journals in India and abroad.

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Title
Living the Body: Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8178299013
Length
xxii+192p.
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