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Gender, sex, and the city : Urdu Rekhtī poetry in India, 1780-1870

Women in the city: inner and outer worlds -- Women in the city: fashioning the self -- Eloquent parrots: gender and language -- Servants, vendors, providers: the city's many voices -- Neither straight nor crooked: love and friendship in the city -- Challenging and changing literary convention:...

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Main Author: Ruth Vanita
Published: New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2012