Adhesives to the patriarchal psyche
India, Feb. 24 -- Every country has a unique relationship to patriarchy. Women's Sexuality and Modern India lays out the vexed place of women's sexuality in the Indian patriarchal imagination, alongside snapshots of how individual middle-class Indian women experience and imagine their sexuality. The book's argument is that women's long standing adaptations to patriarchy make it complicated for them to exit its plot: aesthetics, mother-daughter relationships and inter-generational differences are adhesives to the patriarchal psyche. Using interview excerpts, flash frames from psychotherapy sessions, and literary readings, the author - a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist - describes how women experience, escape from, and grieve sex under patriarchy and what geography might have to do with how sexual liberation gets defined....
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