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The scandal of the state : women, law, and citizenship in postcolonial India / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin Center Book (Series)
- Next wave (Duke University Press)
- Next wave
- A John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--India.
- Women.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Women--Government policy.
- India.
- Women--Government policy--India.
- Women's rights--India.
- Women's rights.
- Citizenship--India.
- Citizenship.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 313 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: women, citizenship, law, and the Indian state
- The Ameena "case": the female citizen and subject
- Beyond the hysterectomies scandal: women, the institution, family and state
- The prostitution question(s): female agency, sexuality, and work
- Women between community and state: some implications of the uniform civil code debates
- Children of the state? unwanted girls in rural Tamilnadu
- Outlaw women: the politics of Phoolan Devi's surrender, 1983.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822330350
- 0822330482
- OCLC:
- 50478407
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