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Highlights
What modern assumptions have we unwittingly brought into the discussion of medieval Japanese bodies and women? Rajyashree Pandey’s Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives skillfully traces the relevant religious and ideological factors influencing Western discourse on the body, gender, eroticism, and agency to expose the many assumptions that underlie these modern analytical frameworks
Pandey attacks an impressive number of modern assumptions relating to the stability and immutability of bodies, sex, gender, and status
Separating shintai from mi, she argues that bodies were not defined or limited by physical corporeal forms; clothing and hair were metonymically linked to bodies and imbued with psychological and mental attributes
Summary
Pandey attacks an impressive number of modern assumptions relating to the stability and immutability of bodies, sex, gender, and status. Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives
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