Women speak nation : gender, culture, and politics / edited by Panchali Ray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Panchali, editor.

Series:

South Asian history and culture.

South Asian history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--India.

Feminism.

Nationalism--India.

Nationalism.

Feminist theory--India.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages).

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Routledge India, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

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

Index.

Notes:

<P>Women speak nation: an introduction</P><P>Panchali Ray</P><B><P>PART I Gender, nation, and nationalism</P></B><P>1 Women and nation revisited </P><P>Partha Chatterjee</P><P>2 The Verma Committee report, 2013: notes on nation, gender, and crime </P><P>Swapan Chakravorty</P><P>3 The gendered nation: to be recoded or rejected? </P><P>Anuradha Roy</P><B><P>PART II Class-caste-community: negotiating the secular, the liberal, and the modern </P></B><P>4 Shia women and their 'place-making': gendered agency in the <I>Muharram </I>gatherings in Kolkata </P><P>Epsita Halder</P><P>5 Speaking in a different voice: Dalit women writing in Bengali </P><P>Nandini Saha</P><P>6 Dance of dissent: dancing Tagore in the age of nationalism </P><P>Aishika Chakraborty</P><B><P>PART III Women's movement(s), representations, and resistances </P></B><P>7 Towards reparative readings: reflections on feminist solidarities in a troubling present </P><P>J. Devika</P><P>8 Political motherhood and a spectacular resistance: (Re)examining the Kangla Fort Protest, Manipur </P><P>Panchali Ray</P><P>9 'Their' suicide letter: an exercise in reading that is always incomplete </P><P>Sayan Bhattacharya</P><P>10 Inside/out: women's movement and women in movements </P><P>Mallarika Sinha Roy</P><P><STRONG>PART IV Voices of dissent </STRONG></P><P>11 Resisting AFSPA, fighting the nation: an interview with Irom Sharmila Chanu </P><P>Panchali Ray</P><P>12 Narratives from Bastar: an interview with Soni Sori </P><P>Panchali Ray</P><P>13 Living in Curfewland: Kashmir 2016 </P><P>Natasha Rather</P><P>14 Coal mining and ecological fragility: questioning development, questioning growth </P><P>Priya Pillai</P><P>15 Tale of a Brahmin and a Shudrani </P><P>Kalyani Thakur (translated from Bangla by Sayantan Dasgupta)</P>

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-49739-9

0-429-29401-8

9780429294013

OCLC:

1112380655