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Embodied violence: communalising women's sexuality in South Asia
Kumari. Jayawardena and Malathi de Alwis-
Frontmatter
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Preface (page vii)
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Introduction (page ix)
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Abducted Women, the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India (RITU MENON & KAMLA BHASIN, page 1)
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Rape and the Construction of Communal Identity (KALPANA KANNABIRAN, page 32)
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Gender, Nationalism(s) and Cultural Identity: Discursive Strategies and Exclusivities (SHAHNAZ ROUSE, page 42)
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Childhood and Role Models in the Andar Mahal: Muslim Women in the Private Sphere in Colonial Bengal (SONIA NISHAT AMIN, page 71)
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Sexuality in the Field of Vision: The Discursive Clothing of the Sigiriya Frescoes (MALATHI DE ALWIS, page 89)
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Ethnicity and the Empowerment of Women: The Colonial Legacy (JASODHARA BAGCHI, page 113)
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Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologues: The Sangh, the Samiti and Differential Concepts of the Hindu Nation (PAOLA BACCHETTA, page 126)
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Static Signifiers: Metaphors of Women in Sri Lankan War Poetry (NELOUFER DE MEL, page 168)
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The Myth of 'Patriots' and 'Traitors': Pandita Ramabai, Brahmanical Patriarchy and Militant Hindu Nationalism (UMA CHAKRAVARTI, page 190)
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Institutions, Beliefs and Ideologies: Widow Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan (KUMKUM SANGARI & SUDESH VAID, page 240)
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Notes on Contributors (page 297)
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Citable Link
Published: c1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury
- 9781856494489 (paper)
- 9781856494472 (hardcover)