Loving women:

By:

Sharma, Maya

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2005.Description: x, 191pISBN:

9788190363419

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.7663 SHA

Summary: About the book: Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India Overwhelming challenges and the impenetrable silence that surrounds them give way to small yet profoundly significant victories in this rare new volume which documents and simultaneously celebrates the life-stories of ten working-class lesbian women. Through detailed interviews and one-on-one interactions with the women in their own contexts, Maya Sharma challenges the notion of women as sexual beings without agency and traces the lives, negotiations, celebrations and tragedies of women loving women in an India that few of us see abd that is rarely, if ever, written about. She also puts together a formidable case for the inclusion READ MORE

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	IIM Kashipur	306.7663 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		5866

Includes index.

About the book: Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India Overwhelming challenges and the impenetrable silence that surrounds them give way to small yet profoundly significant victories in this rare new volume which documents and simultaneously celebrates the life-stories of ten working-class lesbian women. Through detailed interviews and one-on-one interactions with the women in their own contexts, Maya Sharma challenges the notion of women as sexual beings without agency and traces the lives, negotiations, celebrations and tragedies of women loving women in an India that few of us see abd that is rarely, if ever, written about. She also puts together a formidable case for the inclusion
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