Download or read book Gender, Sex, and the City written by R. Vanita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. 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 becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.