Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair : : Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives /

Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair : : Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives / / Rajyashree Pandey.

Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as "body," "woman," "gender," and "agency"-categories that emerged within the context of western philosophical, religious, and feminist debates-to analyze texts that come out...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Pandey, Rajyashree,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 8 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Rethinking Body, Woman, Sex, and Agency in Medieval Japanese Narratives
  • CHAPTER TWO .The Erotics of the Body in the Tale of Genji
  • CHAPTER THREE .The Erotics of Power in the Tale of Genji
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Woman, Love, Poetry, and Enlightenment Izumi Shikibu as Topos
  • CHAPTER FIVE. "Meditating on the Impure Body" The Generic Transformations of a Medieval Topos
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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