Kamasutra

Name: Kamasutra
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ISBN: 9780192802705

ISBN-10: 0192802704

ISBN-13: 9780192802705

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar

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The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living--about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs--and also, of course, about the many and varied positions available to lovers in sexual intercourse and the pleasures to be derived from each. The Kamasutra was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual psychology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction,…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/6/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 7.90" wide x 5.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School and a professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.