Embodied violence: Communalising women's sexuality in South Asia
1996; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 4; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0968-8080(96)90372-9
ISSN1460-9576
AutoresKumari Jayawardena, Malathi de Alwis,
Tópico(s)South Asian Studies and Diaspora
Resumo* Contents * 1. Abducted Women, the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India - Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin * 2. Rape and the Construction of Communal Identity - Kalpana Kannabiran * 3. Discursive Strategies and Exclusivities: Gender, Nationalism(s) and Cultural Identity - Shahnaz Rouse * 4. Inside the Andar Mahal: Muslim Women in the Private Sphere in Colonial Bengal - Sonia Nishat Amin * 5. Sexuality in the Field of Vision: The Discursive Clothing of the Sigiriya Frescoes - Malathi de Alwis * 6. Ethnicity and the Empowerment of Women: The Colonial Legacy - Jasodhara Bagchi * 7. Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologues: The 'Sangh' the 'Samiti' and their Differential Concept of the Hindu Nation - Paola Bacchetta * 8. Static Signifiers? Metaphors of Woman in Contemporary Sri Lankan War Poetry - Neloufer de Mel * 9. The Myth of 'Patriots' and 'Traitors': Pandita Ramabai, Brahmanical Patriarchy, and Militant Hindu Nationalism - Uma Chakravarti * 10. Institutions, Beliefs, Ideologies: Widow-Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan - Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid
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