Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In A Rapture of Distress

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Amrita Narayanan (Visiting Professor of Practice in Psychology, Visiting Professor of Practice in Psychology, Krea University)

Women's Sexuality and Modern India

In A Rapture of Distress

Amrita Narayanan (Visiting Professor of Practice in Psychology, Visiting Professor of Practice in Psychology, Krea University)

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Oxford University Press
23 December 2022

Literary essays; Psychology of gender; Sexual behaviour

Between the first and second decade of the millennium, women across the world reconsidered the sexual roles they had been playing under patriarchy. The 2012 protests in India triggered some of this global change, ushering Indians squarely into the desired yet uncomfortable "" third wave"" feminism which demands the recognition of women as sexual subjects. Beginning from the premise that each country is in a unique relationship to patriarchy, Women's Sexuality in India: In a Rapture of Distress offers pictures of how individual Indian women locate their sexuality amidst the fantasies of Indian patriarchy, and of world culture that imagine their sexuality for them. Built from a data set of upper-middle class women, the book opens up a number of provocative questions. How is dismantling the patriarchy in the imagination different from fighting patriarchy in the outer world? What aspects of sex under patriarchy do women want to give up, and what would they like to keep? What conflicts unfold when daughters welcome as ""sexual liberation"" ideas that their mothers believed had ""come from the west"", a west that has been, until fairly recently, a hated colonial oppressor? How did the control of upper-middle class women's sexuality serve as an anchor for collective anxieties about the inherent instability of gender and sexuality? What is the nature of the spectator effect when post-sexual revolution countries listen to the sexuality narratives of countries like India that have not had a sexual revolution?

By: Amrita Narayanan (Visiting Professor of Practice in Psychology Visiting Professor of Practice in Psychology Krea University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 396g
ISBN: 9780192859815
ISBN 10: 0192859811
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 23 December 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amrita Narayanan is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is the editor of The Parrots of Desire: 3000 years of Erotica in India (Aleph Books, 2018), and a contributor to Psychoanalysis in the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family and Childhood (Lexington Books, 2018) and to Pha(bu)llus: a cultural history of the Phallus (Harper Collins, 2020).

Reviews for Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In A Rapture of Distress

"[A] beautiful, rich and intricately woven web of sometimes startling insights, and poses sharp, often uncomfortable questions that force the reader to rethink so-called ""normal"" assumptions.'— Urvashi Bhutalia, Indian feminist writer, publisher, and activist 'A lyrical intelligence animates this highly insightful account … by one of the most original psychoanalysts of her generation.' — Sudhir Kakar, Indian psychoanalyst, novelist, and author"