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All You Want Is Money, All You Need Is Love: Sex and Romance in Modern India (Gender & Women's Studies/Literature & the Arts)

By Rachel Dwyer

Book information

Publisher
Cassell
Year
2000
ISBN
0304703214, 9780304703210
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
56 MB (58414249 bytes)
Pages
224\264
Time added
2021-10-16 17:14:09

Description

An examination of India's bourgeois, its lifestyle and aspirations as manifested in fiction and film. It begins by looking at heroines and notions of idealized womanhood in a historical perspective, and examines how these are reworked in modern narratives, how conflicts are resolved and new models developed. A major theme is the redefinition of love and romance among the Indian middle classes, as part of the creation of a bourgeois individual revolving around love, romance and marriage. The book concentrates on the most radical of India's metropolitan bourgeoisies, that of the city of Mumbai (Bombay).

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