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  • Women's Sexuality and Modern India

    In A Rapture of Distress

    by Amrita Narayanan ...
    Between the first and second decade of the millennium, women across the world reconsidered the sexual roles they had been playing under patriarchy. The 2012 protests in India triggered some of this global change, ushering Indians squarely into the desired yet uncomfortable " third wave" feminism which demands the recognition of women as sexual subjects. Beginning from the premise that each country ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Pha(bu)llus

    A Cultural History

    by Alka Pande, Johan Mattelaer, Philip Van Kerrebroeck, Amrita Narayanan, P Kerrebroeck, J Mattelaer, A Narayanan ...
    Phallic symbolism is one of the oldest and most prevalent motifs in religion, culture and art: the earliest known representations go back to prehistoric times. Starting off as a symbol of fertility, the phallus has gone through numerous interpretations in the way it is perceived, and its symbolic significance varies across cultures as well. In the west, the erotic symbolism of the phallus is often ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir

    Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood

    by Anup Dhar, Anurag Mishra, Amrita Narayanan, Sabah Siddiqui, Bhargavi Davar, Urvashi Agarwal, Nilofer Kaul, Shalini Masih0, Zehra Mehdi1, Ajeet Mathur2, Sudhir Kakar3, Alfred Margulies4, Shifa Haq5, Manasi Kumar6, Atreyee Sen8 ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
    In Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir, Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, and Anurag Mishra discuss the synergies and diachronic thought that is emblematic of the current psychoanalytic narrative in India and examine what psychoanalysis in India could become. The contributors to this edited collection connect problems around culture, family, traditions, and the burgeoning political changes in the Indian ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • Religions Values and Peak-Experiences

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  • Side Affects

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    Essays in Somaesthetics

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  • Remaking Men

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