Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Strange and the Familiar in the Kamasutra -- 2 The Kautilyan Kamasutra -- 3 The Mythology of the Kamasutra -- 4 Women in the Kamasutra -- 5 The Third Nature: Gender Inversions -- 6 The Mare's Trap: The Nature and Culture of Sex -- 7 The Rise and Fall of Kama and the Kamasutra -- Notes.
In Redeeming the Kamasutra, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature.
9780190499297
Erotic literature, Sanskrit--History and criticism.