Mahua Sarkar

Visible Histories, Disappearing Women

Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that the discursive erasure of Muslim women within colonial and Hindu nationalist discourse underpinned the construction of other identity categories in late colonial Bengal and remains linked to violence against Indian Muslim women today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 173mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342151
• ISBN-10: 0822342154
• Artikelnr.: 23370264

Autorenporträt

Mahua Sarkar is Associate Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the Women’s Studies and Asian and Asian-American Studies programs at Binghamton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Writing Difference 1
1. The Colonial Cast: The Merchant, the Soldier, the "Writer" (Clerk),
Their Lovers, and the Trouble with "Native Women's" Histories 27
2. The Politics of (In)visibility: Muslim Women in (Hindu) Nationalist
Discourse 48
3. Negotiating Modernity: The Social Production of Muslim-ness in Late
Colonial Bengal 78
4. Difference in Memory 133
Conclusion: Connections 196
Notes 205
Bibliography 287
Index 331