Nalini Natarajan

The Unsafe Sex

The Female Binary and Public Violence Against Women

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Produktbeschreibung

The Unsafe Sex addresses this phenomenon and provides a socio-historical and cultural context to explain why public violence against women is rooted in the binary within which they are viewedwomen as, ideally, a source of dignity within the home, while being a source of shame outside it. Probing the intensification of this war on womens bodies, it delves into issues about their safety and security in an increasingly unpredictable world. Drawing from anthropology, myths, literature and film, history, sociology of class and change, and feminist theory, this book explores the reasons underlying a glaring fissure in our public lifecruelty towards women in public places.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780199463107
• ISBN-10: 0199463107
• Artikelnr.: 47865892

Autorenporträt

Nalini Natarajan is Senior Professor of English Literature and Theory at the University of Puerto Rico. She has authored four books, including the critically acclaimed Atlantic Gandhi: The Mahatma Overseas (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* 1. Sita Apaharan and Draupadi Vastraharan: Abduction and Disrobing in
the Epics
* 2. Militarization and Mutiny: Safety and Sexuality for Peasant Women
and Prostitutes
* 3. Gandhi and the Purity of Assaulted Women
* 4. Westernization and Latent Gender Violence
* 5. From National Symbol to Victim of a New Freedom: Bombay Cinema and
Violence
* 6. Cut Down by the Cutlass: Violence against Women in Indenture
* Epilogue
* Glossary
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Author