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Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion
Saskia E Wieringa
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Description for Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FMN; JFMX; JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the ... Read more
This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195502
SKU
V9781845195502
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About Saskia E Wieringa
Saskia E. Wieringa is Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Her field of study includes women's same-sex relations across cultures.
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