Ritu Menon

Borders and Boundaries

How Women Experienced the Partition of India

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1947 India was simultaneously freed--and divided. The departure of the British was accompanied by a bloody partition in which one million people perished and over ten million were displaced. Borders

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780813525525
• ISBN-10: 0813525527
• Artikelnr.: 21790866

Autorenporträt

RITU MENON is an independent scholar and co-publisher of Kali. She is co-editor of Against All Odds: Essays on Women, Religion, and Development from India and Pakistan. KAMLA BHASIN has written extensively on participatory training for women and on sustainable development.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Speaking for Themselves: Partition's History, Women's History
Honourably Dead: Permissible Violence Against Women
Borders and Bodies: Recovering Women in the Interest of the Nation
A Community of Widows: Missing Citizens
Picking up the Pieces: Women Rehabilitate Women
Learning to Survive: Two Lives, Two Destinies
Belonging: Women and Their Nations
Appendix I
Appendix II
Index