Wendy Doniger
Redeeming the Kamasutra
- ISBN 13:
- 9780190499280
- author:
- Wendy Doniger
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- OUP USA 1st edition edition
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 184
- Dimensions:
- 23.1 x 2.3 x 16 cm
- Genre:
- History, Religious History, Hinduism, Wendy Doniger,Redeeming the Kamasutra,OUP USA,0190499281,Non-Christian Religions,Religion - World Religions,Erotic literature, Sanskrit - History and criticism,LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic,RELIGION / Hindui
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is one of the world's most famous textbooks of erotic love. This scholarly and readable book restores the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon as a landmark of India's secular literature. Wendy Doniger reveals fascinating aspects of the Kamasutra as a guide to the art of living for ancient India, including its emphasis on grooming and etiquette, the study and practice of the arts, and discretion and patience in conducting affairs. The book also displays surprisingly modern ideas about gender and role-playing, female sexuality, and homosexual desire. However, Doniger also shows how the Kamasutra perpetuates attitudes that have continued to darken human sexuality, such as passages that twin passion with violence and those that explain away women's protests and exclamations of pain.
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