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Real and Imagined Women

Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism

By: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

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Real and Imagined Women

Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism

By: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the `third world woman' as victim.

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Routledge

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1134886519

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9781134886517

The Scandal of the State

Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

By: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

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The Scandal of the State

Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

By: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.

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340

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Duke University Press

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0822330482

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9780822330486

Real and Imagined Women

Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism

By: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

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Real and Imagined Women

Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism

By: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1134886527

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The Scandal of the State

Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

By: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

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The Scandal of the State

Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

By: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women’s identities and how, reciprocally, women and “women’s issues” affect the state’s role and function. She argues that in India law and citizenship define for women not only the scope of political rights but also cultural identity and everyday life. Sunder Rajan delineates the postcolonial state in implicit contrast with the “enlightened,” postfeminist neoliberal state in the West. Her analysis wrestles with complex social realities, taking into account the influence of age, ethnicity, religion, and class on individual and group identities as well as the shifting, heterogeneous nature of the state itself. The Scandal of the State develops through a series of compelling case studies, each of which centers around an incident exposing the contradictory position of the Indian state vis-à-vis its female citizens and, ultimately, the inadequacy of its commitment to women’s rights. Sunder Rajan focuses on the custody battle over a Muslim child bride, the compulsory sterilization of mentally retarded women in state institutional care, female infanticide in Tamilnadu, prostitution as labor rather than crime, and the surrender of the female outlaw Phoolan Devi. She also looks at the ways the Uniform Civil Code presented many women with a stark choice between allegiance to their religion and community or the secular assertion of individual rights. Rich with theoretical acumen and activist passion, The Scandal of the State is a powerful critique of the mutual dependence of women and the state on one another in the specific context of a postcolonial modernity.

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