Sensible Sensuality

Sensible and Sensuality is a collection of essays by Indian writer Sarojini Sahoo.^[1]

Sahoo's fiction focuses on aspects of human experience, like puberty and menopause. She argues that women's sexual liberation was the real motive behind the "women's movement.^[2]"

Sahoo argues that orgasm is the body's natural call to feminist politics.

In South Asian Outlook, an e-magazine published from Canada, Menka Walia writes: "Sahoo typically evolves her stories around Indian women and sexuality, which is something not commonly written about, but is rather discouraged in a traditionalist society. As a feminist, she advocates women's rights and usually gives light to the injustices Eastern women face. In her interviews, she usually talks about the fact that women are second-class citizens in India, backing up these facts with examples of how love marriages are forbidden, the rejection of divorces, the unfairness of dowries, and the rejection of female politicians."^[3]

Machhum Billah and Hassan Mehedi have translated this book into Bengali and it was published from Bangladesh by Bangla Prakash, Dhaka, in 2012.^[4] A Malayalam version of this book has been published by Chintha Publishers, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in 2013, in Prameela KP's translation under the title Pennakam.^[5]

• List of feminists
• List of feminist literature
• The Dark Abode
• Sarojini Sahoo Stories

• Sarojini Sahoo Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine - Official Web site
• Sarojini Sahoo - Blog
• Sarojini Sahoo - Sawnet Bio
• Oriya Nari
• Orissa Diary