Description
A collection of compelling essays interrogate various Indian texts and contexts along intersecting axes of gender, nation, and desire. Written in a style that is informed by scholarship yet accessible to the general reader and boldly addressing several issues South Asian society would `rather not talk about, this is a timely volume that effectively narrows the looming gap between sexuality and gender.
ISBN 978-8190227254
Raised and educated in India, Ruth Vanita divides her time between Gurgaon and Missoula. Her first novel, Memory of Light, appeared from Penguin in 2020. Her next book of poems, A Hidden Player, will appear from Copper Coin in 2022. She taught at Delhi University for 20 years; for 13 years, she was active in the women’s movement and worked as co-editor of India’s first nationwide feminist magazine, Manushi, of which she was a founder. She is the author of many books on same-sex sexuality in Indian and British literature; her next book, The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna and Species, will appear from Oxford University Press in 2022.
