Women More Focused on in the Kamasutra

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Vito DiGioia

November 4, 2005

English 115

Women More Focused on in the Kamasutra

According to the articles “Pliant and Compliant: Colonial Indian Art and post Colonial Cinema” by Gita Rajan and the “Kamasutra: It Isn’t all About Sex by Wendy Doniger”, these two texts argue how women are talked about more in the Kamasutra more than and is proven in both articles by citing information from the Kamasutra. Both authors have the same techniques as to stating evidence that is used from the Kamasutra text. Rajan says how women are more focused on in the Kamasutra and cites examples straight from the original text.

The book inquires that if parts of the Kamasutra are directed toward women then do they reflect women’s voices. For example, in the article “The Kamasutra: It Isn’t All about Sex” by Wendy Doniger who cites the text from The Kamasutra states, “The text not only assumes an official male voice (the voice of Vatsyayana) but denies that women’s words truly represent their feelings, women’s exclamations are taken not as indications of their wish to escape pain being inflicted on them, but merely as part of a poly designed to excite their male partners” (p23). Wendy Doniger states in this essay from the book called The Kamasutra , A woman desires any attractive man she sees ,and, in the same way and man desires a woman” (p 24). The book shows examples of different ways the book is used by women. The book inquires that women have less concern for morality than men do.

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According to the book “The Kamasutra: It Isn’t All about Sex” who cited this quote from the Kamasutra states, “The Kamasutra expresses points of view clearly favorable to women, particularly in comparison with other texts of the same era” (p 23). The book gives an example of how women are easily controlled by men’s words. Another example would be, in the text it states, “Yet this is also a great move that mitigates the strong female agency in the text….” (p 22). The book Kamasutra also explains in stories that women do things for men that the men do not want them to do. For example, in the book The Kamasutra: It Isn’t All about Sex it states, “ she does for him what he does not want, and she does repeatedly what he has criticized” (p 22). The book also states that women have a control over men. In the book it states that book three of the Kamasutra devotes one episode to advice to virgins trying to get husbands.

According to the book The Kamasutra: It Isn’t All about Sex by Wendy Doniger makes a claim stating that parts of the book Kamasutra were designed to be used by women. The book begins to state how women enjoy reading the Kamasutra not for the different types of sex positions but for the satisfaction of their reading. According to the book The Kamasutra: It Isn’t All about Sex, the book supports its claim of how women are targeted most by the book.

The author states that the image that he writes about cannot be changed because it is a part of history. For example, in the article “Pliant and Compliant: Colonial Indian Art and Postcolonial Cinema” by the author Gita Rajan states that the Kamasutra says, “The image he writes is still because it is embedded in interesting light” (50). According to the article, Indian women in the Kamasutra are shown in many cultural interactions with

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different races and class. For example, Pliant and Compliant: