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Amour dans la littérature --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Lesbians in literature --- Lesbiennes dans la littérature --- Lesbiennes in de literatuur --- Liefde in de literatuur --- Love in literature --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- Christian special devotions --- Fiction --- Sexology --- Thematology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Great Britain --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Homosexuality and literature --- History --- Lesbians' writings [English ] --- Sappho of Lesbos --- Homosexuality --- Female homosexuality --- Literature --- Marian devotion --- Writers --- Images of women --- Book

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"Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra and to nineteenth-century courtly cultures, but they are also the first group of modern women in Hindi films. They are working professionals living on their own or in matrilineal families. Like male protagonists, they travel widely and develop networks of friends and chosen kin. They have relations with men outside marriage and become single mothers. Courtesan films are heroine-oriented and almost every major female actor has played this role. Challenging received wisdom, Vanita demonstrates that a larger number of courtesans in Bombay cinema are Hindu and indeterminate than are Muslim, and that films depict their culture as hybrid Hindu-Muslim, not Islamicate. Courtesans speak in the ambiguous voice of the modern nation, inviting spectators to seize pleasure here and now but also to search for the meaning of life. Vanita's groundbreaking study of courtesans and courtesan imagery in 235 films brings fresh evidence to show that the courtesan figure shapes the modern Indian erotic, political and religious imagination."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Motion pictures --- Actresses --- Courtesans --- Sex role in motion pictures.

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Motion picture industry --- Motion pictures, Indic --- Prostitution in motion pictures. --- Courtesans --- History.

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Fonds Suzan Daniel (FSD)

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