Embodied violence : communalising women's sexuality in South Asia /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New Jersey : Zed Books, c1996.
Description:	xxiv, 299 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:	Women -- Crimes against -- South Asia. Abused women -- South Asia. Violence -- South Asia. Violent crimes -- South Asia.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10516729

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Other authors / contributors:	Jayawardena, Kumari. Alwis, Malathi de. American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN:	1856494470 1856494489
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

Table of Contents:

1. Abducted Women, the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India
2. Rape and the Construction of Communal Identity
3. Discursive Strategies and Exclusivities: Gender, Nationalism(s) and Cultural Identity
4. Inside the Andar Mahal: Muslim Women in the Private Sphere in Colonial Bengal
5. Sexuality in the Field of Vision: The Discursive Clothing of the Sigiriya Frescoes
6. Ethnicity and the Empowerment of Women: The Colonial Legacy
7. Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologues: The 'Sangh' the 'Samiti' and their Differential Concept of the Hindu Nation
8. Static Signifiers? Metaphors of Woman in Contemporary Sri Lankan War Poetry
9. The Myth of 'Patriots' and 'Traitors': Pandita Ramabai, Brahmanical Patriarchy, and Militant Hindu Nationalism
10. Institutions, Beliefs, Ideologies: Widow-Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan

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