Author: Johann Jakob Meyer
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 1985
Language: English
Pages: 591
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120806387
Description
This book provides the reader with the most faithful and valuable account of the life of a woman from maidenhood to adolescence, describing in great detail the relations of the sexes and the concepts underlying those relations that prevailed in India about fifteen hundred years ago.
This vivid account is based upon the immense mass of material embedded in the vast Sanskrit literature, especially the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
The book contains twenty-two chapters divided into two parts bound in a single volume. The book describes the life of a woman in all the different stages of her life - in pleasure and grief, in war and peace, explaining in great detail her accomplishments as the ideal woman, her position, rank, importance, worth, nature, power etc. We find herein, for the first time some interesting and instructive directives on the pleasures of sex, venal love, man's sexual continence and kindered issues of sexual life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE
I - THE MAID
II - MARRIAGE: TO WHOM AND HOW IS THE MAIDEN TO BE MARRIED?
III - THE WEDDING
IV - LIFE IN MARRIAGE
V - WOMAN AS MOTHER
VI - WOMAN IN HER SEXUAL RELATIONS
VII - THE PLEASURES OF SEX (SURATA)
VIII - THE SEXUAL CONTINENCE OF MAN
IX - THE PLEASURES OF VENAL LOVE: THE PUBLIC WOMAN
XI - WOMAN AS WIFE
PART TWO
X - LOVE
XI - WOMAN AS WIFE
XII - WOMAN AS CHILD-BEARER: THE ORIGIN OF MAN, PHYSIOLOGICALLY AND METAPHYSICALLY
XIII - WOMAN LYING IN
XIV - WOMAN IN THE HOUSE
XV - THE WIDOW AND HER BITTER LOT
XVI - WOMAN IN MISFORTUNE AND IN SORROW
XVII - THE IDEAL WOMAN
XVIII - THE WOMAN ENERGY
XIX - POSITION RANK AND IMPORTANCE OF WOMAN
XX - THE WORTH AND NATURE OF WOMAN
XXI - WOMAN IS A CHATTEL
XXII - THE POWER OF WOMAN
Contents
PART TWO
X- Love
XI- Woman As Wife
XII- Woman as Child-Bearer: The Origin of Man, Physiologically and Metaphysically
XIII- Woman Lying In
XIV – Woman in the House
XV-The Widow and Her Bitter lot
XVI-Woman in Misfortune and In Sorrow
XVII- The Ideal Woman
XVIII- The Woman of Energy
XIX- Position, Rank, and Importance of Woman
XX- The Worth and Nature of Woman
XXI- Woman is a Chattel
XXII- The Power of Woman
APPENDIX: ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
INDEX