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Sex and power : defining history, shaping societies
- Author
- Banerji, Rita.
- Title
- Sex and power : defining history, shaping societies / Rita Banerji.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2008.
- Description
- xii, 417 p. ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-400) and index.
- Contents
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- The Vedic period: sex as a sacred duty
- The Buddhist period: sex as a prison
- The golden period: sex as salvation
- The colonial period: sex as shame
- The democratic period: a sexual paradox.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex ethics--India. Sex customs--India. Sex and society--India. Sex behavior history--India. Social ethics--India. Gender role identification--India.
- ISBN
- 9780143064718 0143064711