{"product_id":"desire-and-defiance","title":"DESIRE AND DEFIANCE","description":"\u003cp\u003eDesire and Defiance retells the story of heterosexual love in Bengal from the womans perspective. Focusing primarily on upper-caste Bengali women from both Hindu and Brahmo backgrounds, this book explores aspects of heterosexual intimacy that were considered transgressive by upper-caste Hindu society. Resisting societal attempts to confine their sexuality, many upper-caste Hindu and Brahmo women married (or remarried) according to their own choice or engaged in non-marital and extra-marital intimacy. However, as the book shows, such transgression usually led to harassment, familial and social ostracism and severe social sanctions. The colonial bureaucracy, judiciary and media exercised control over womens sexuality through laws and strictures, highlighting the way patriarchy transcended the divide between the public and the private, the coloniser and the colonised. Providing a feminist understanding of the high-caste Hindu\/Brahmo womans varied and mostly unrewarding experiences of intimacy outside the bounds of normative relationships, this book provides a glimpse into the deeply gendered world of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45880421155014,"sku":"DADAX8125062351","price":46.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/912gq3uZXFL.jpg?v=1779735642","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/desire-and-defiance","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}