Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 by R. Vanita

Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World

R. Vanita

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Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's liv...

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