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Love, Eroticism and Female Sexuality in Classical Sanskrit Literature: Seventh-Thirteenth Centuries / Shah, Shalini
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Love, Eroticism and Female Sexuality in Classical Sanskrit Literature: Seventh-Thirteenth Centuries
Shah, Shalini
 
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  Book ID : 35690
  ISBN-10 : 81-7304-831-9 / 8173048319
  ISBN-13 : 978-81-7304-831-9 / 9788173048319
  Place of Publication : Delhi
  Year of Publication : 2009
  Edition : (First Edition)
  Language : English
  248p., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
   
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CONTENTS:-
1. The philosophy of Kama.
2. The physiology of Kama.
3. In the business of Kama.
4. Prema and Srngara.
5. Conclusion.
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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 illumine 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 ascetic philosophies.

The author has further made a case for seeing the prostitute sexuality differently from that of a kulavadhu, i.e. a household woman. The treatment of the sexual desire of mayavinis, raksasis, dakinis, and svairinis 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, Bhavabhuti's and Jayadeva's 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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