Embodied violence
Kumari Jayawardena ; Malathi de Alwis
Embodied violence : communalising women's sexuality in South Asia /Kumari Jayawardena; Malathi de Alwis - New Jersey : Zed Books , ©1996. - xxiv, 299 pages ;24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) .
1. Abducted Women, the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India - Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin2. Rape and the Construction of Communal Identity - Kalpana Kannabiran3. Discursive Strategies and Exclusivities: Gender, Nationalism(s) and Cultural Identity - Shahnaz Rouse4. Inside the Andar Mahal: Muslim Women in the Private Sphere in Colonial Bengal - Sonia Nishat Amin5. Sexuality in the Field of Vision: The Discursive Clothing of the Sigiriya Frescoes - Malathi de Alwis6. Ethnicity and the Empowerment of Women: The Colonial Legacy - Jasodhara Bagchi7. Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologues: The 'Sangh' the 'Samiti' and their Differential Concept of the Hindu Nation - Paola Bacchetta8. Static Signifiers? Metaphors of Woman in Contemporary Sri Lankan War Poetry - Neloufer de Mel9. The Myth of 'Patriots' and 'Traitors': Pandita Ramabai, Brahmanical Patriarchy, and Militant Hindu Nationalism - Uma Chakravarti10. Institutions, Beliefs, Ideologies: Widow-Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan - Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid
Focusing on South Asia, this is an investigation into the myriad ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women's bodies.
9781856494489
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors ;7/22,Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002
Social Sciences
Women -- Crimes against -- South Asia.
305.4 JAY
Embodied violence : communalising women's sexuality in South Asia /Kumari Jayawardena; Malathi de Alwis - New Jersey : Zed Books , ©1996. - xxiv, 299 pages ;24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) .
1. Abducted Women, the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India - Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin2. Rape and the Construction of Communal Identity - Kalpana Kannabiran3. Discursive Strategies and Exclusivities: Gender, Nationalism(s) and Cultural Identity - Shahnaz Rouse4. Inside the Andar Mahal: Muslim Women in the Private Sphere in Colonial Bengal - Sonia Nishat Amin5. Sexuality in the Field of Vision: The Discursive Clothing of the Sigiriya Frescoes - Malathi de Alwis6. Ethnicity and the Empowerment of Women: The Colonial Legacy - Jasodhara Bagchi7. Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologues: The 'Sangh' the 'Samiti' and their Differential Concept of the Hindu Nation - Paola Bacchetta8. Static Signifiers? Metaphors of Woman in Contemporary Sri Lankan War Poetry - Neloufer de Mel9. The Myth of 'Patriots' and 'Traitors': Pandita Ramabai, Brahmanical Patriarchy, and Militant Hindu Nationalism - Uma Chakravarti10. Institutions, Beliefs, Ideologies: Widow-Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan - Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid
Focusing on South Asia, this is an investigation into the myriad ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women's bodies.
9781856494489
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors ;7/22,Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002
Social Sciences
Women -- Crimes against -- South Asia.
305.4 JAY
