Gender, Sex, and the City
| Author | : R. Vanita |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2012-02-14 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781137016560 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1137016566 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gender, Sex, and the City by : R. Vanita
Download or read book Gender, Sex, and the City written by R. Vanita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.
