Embodiment: Essays on gender and identity - Thapan Meenakshi; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (Oxford University Press Delhi, 1997)
Keywords: Gender identity -- Human body -- Social aspects -- Sex role -- Religious life and customs -- Feminism -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies -- Gender and embodiment in everyday life -- Socially constructed body- caste, community and nationalism : Scandal in high places- discourses on chaste Hindu women in late 19 century Bengal, female sexuality and community in Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar ganga Opar ganga, abducted and windowed women- questions of sexuality and citizenship during partition -- lived body in everyday life- space, performance and intimate relationships : Femininity, space and female body- anthropological perspective, femininity and body of female ballet dancers in Netherland, dharma and desire, freedom and destiny- rescripting the man-women relationship in popular Hindi Cinema, femininity and its discontents- women's body in intimate relationships -- Disciplining the body - Discourse of medical science and social regulation of prostitution : Cultural approach to menstrual symptomatology, prostitution- contemporary feminist discourse -- Subversive voices and resisting bodies- individual and collective strategies : Caste in scene of desire, femineity and sexual difference- critical reading of Helen Cixous, from housewifization to androgyny, sexuality and power in feminist discourse in India -- gender & development