Writing the Body: Studies in the Self-images of Women in Indian English Poetry

The body is a fiercely contested site in both Western and Eastern epistemological discourses. Philosophers have never been at home with it, and their attitudes towards it have either been dismissive or disregardful. In Socrates’ dialogue Crito (recorded, of course, by Plato), the body is unambiguous...

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