Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India - Softcover

 
9780813529127: Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813529123 ISBN 13: 9780813529127
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The essays in this volume map the concerns of gender onto the terrain of nation, finding significant connections, disjunctions and tensions between them. The contributors argue that gender must take centre stage in any cultural analysis performed in the context of decolonized nation-space. They explore gender as a point of crisis in the cultural, social and political space of a nation. They attribute the existence of these crises to conflicts between gender, on the one hand, and the family, community and nation on the other. These are then analyzed in terms of female identity, subjectivity and agency within a narrative of historical modernity.

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About the Author

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is the author of Real and imagined Women: Gender, Culture, and Postcolonialism as well as other books and articles on South Asian gender issues and feminist and postcolonial theory. She will be joining the English faculty at the University of Oxford in Fall 2001.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813529123
ISBN 13 
9780813529127
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
390
Editor
Rajan Rajeswari Sunder

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