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Muscular nationalism : gender, violence, and empire in India and Ireland, 1914-2004 / Sikata Banerjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banerjee, Sikata.
- Series:
- Gender and political violence series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--History.
- Women.
- Masculinity.
- History.
- India.
- Women--Ireland--History.
- Masculinity--Great Britain--History.
- Nationalism--History.
- Nationalism.
- Great Britain--Colonies.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 210 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2012]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In Muscular Nationalism, Sikata Banerjee uses a comparative examination of India and Ireland to explore the relationship among gender, violence, and nationalism. She demonstrates how women negotiate "muscular nationalisms" as they seek to be recognized as legitimate nationalists and equal stakeholders in their national struggles. Drawing on key texts and events from 1914-2004, Banerjee discusses how women negotiate a political and social terrain infused with a masculinized dream of nation-building. India and Ireland-two states shaped by the legacy of British imperialism and forced to deal with modern political and social conflicts centering on competing nationalisms-provide two provocative case studies that illuminate the complex interaction between gender and nation. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Under die British Gaze: The Weak Bengali and the Simianized Celt 21
- 2 "Muscular Gael" and "Warrior Monk": Muscular Nationalism in Colonial India and Ireland 45
- 3 Irish and Indian Women in Muscular Nationalism 1914-1932 75
- 4 Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism in the Postcolonial Context: Naxal and Armagh Women 107
- 5 Who Is a Proper Woman in the Nation? Femininity in the Roop Kanwar Immolation and the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum 133.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- OCLC:
- 787848548
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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