Women Speak Nation

Gender, Culture, and Politics

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Panchali Ray, Kolkata) Ray, Panchali (School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University

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Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political, economic, cultural, and social formations and normative gendered relations to try and understand the cross-currents in contemporary feminist theorizing and politics.The chapters question the gendered depictions of the nation as Hindu, upper caste, middle class, heterosexual, able-bodied Indian mother. The volume also brings together interviews and short essays from practitioners and activists who voice an alternative reimagining of the nation.The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender, politics, modern South Asian history, and cultural studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-03-31
Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSouth Asian History and Culture
Antal sidor230
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367785246

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Politik och statsskick inom Samhalle och politik
Samhälle och kultur inom Samhalle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Women speak nation: an introduction PART I Gender, nation, and nationalism 1 Women and nation revisited 2 The Verma Committee report, 2013: notes on nation, gender, and crime 3 The gendered nation: to be recoded or rejected? PART II Class-caste-community: negotiating the secular, the liberal, and the modern 4 Shia women and their ‘place-making’: gendered agency in the Muharram gatherings in Kolkata 5 Speaking in a different voice: Dalit women writing in Bengali 6 Dance of dissent: dancing Tagore in the age of nationalism PART III Women’s movement(s), representations, and resistances 7 Towards reparative readings: reflections on feminist solidarities in a troubling present 8 Political motherhood and a spectacular resistance: (Re)examining the Kangla Fort Protest, Manipur 9 ‘Their’ suicide letter: an exercise in reading that is always incomplete 10 Inside/out: women’s movement and women in movements PART IV Voices of dissent 11 Resisting AFSPA, fighting the nation: an interview with Irom Sharmila Chanu 12 Narratives from Bastar: an interview with Soni Sori 13 Living in Curfewland: Kashmir 2016 14 Coal mining and ecological fragility: questioning development, questioning growth 15 Tale of a Brahmin and a Shudrani

"This collection of essays is a fascinating snapshot of the relationship between women and nation in present-day India. The essays, which focus on topics spanning crimes against women, women's dissent, and how the fragility of the environment and development affects women, are a powerful admonition of the political landscape of 21st-century India."Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.--J. M. Morris, Mount St. Joseph University, CHOICE, March 2020 Vol. 57 No. 5