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Doniger, Wendy, author.
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Vātsyāyana. Kāmasūtra.
Erotic literature, Sanskrit -- History and criticism.
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Redeeming the Kamasu...
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Redeeming the Kamasutra / Wendy Doniger.
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Doniger, Wendy, author.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2016.
Subjects
Vātsyāyana. Kāmasūtra.
Erotic literature, Sanskrit -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9780190499280 (hardback) :
0190499281 (hardback)
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182 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- The Strange and the Familiar in the Kamasutra -- The Kautilyan Kamasutra -- The Mythology of the Kamasutra -- Women in the Kamasutra -- The Third Nature: Gender Inversions -- The Mare's Trap: The Nature and Culture of Sex -- The Rise and Fall of Kama and the Kamasutra -- Notes.
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"In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature. In investigating, and helping us understand, a much celebrated but under-appreciated text, Wendy Doniger has produced a rich and compelling text of her own that will interest, delight, and surprise scholars and lay readers alike"--
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