Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry, 1780-1870 [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2012] Ruth Vanita

About the book: gender, sex and the city: urdu rekhti poetry, 1780-1870 this book explores the cosmopolitan sensibilities of urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, especially in the city of lucknow-the centre of a flourishing indo-persian culture it demonstrates how, for the first time in urdu, rekhti (a type of urdu poetry whose distinguishing features are a female speaker and a focus on womens lives) and to some degree, non-mystical rekhta (mainstream urdu poetry with a male speaker), represent women as important shapers of urban culture, especially urban speech