TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vanita,Ruth
TI  - Gender, sex and the city : Urdu Rekhti poetry in India 1780-1870 
T2  - Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
SN  - 9780230340640 
U1  - 891.43910099287 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Urdu Poetry
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow, which was the center of a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it became a catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal"--
ER  -