Signposts

by Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder; Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari

• ISBN13: 9780813529127
• ISBN10: 0813529123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

The essays in this volume map the concerns of gender onto the terrain of nation, finding significant connections, disjunctions, and tensions between them. Contributors explore gender as a point of crisis in the cultural, social, and political space of a nation.

Author Biography

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan will soon be joining the English faculty at the University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(17)
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Virgin Mother, Beloved Other
The Erotics of Tamil Nationalism in Colonial and Post-Colonial India	17	(40)
Sumathi Ramaswamy
Thinking About the New Indian Middle Class
Gender, Advertising and Politics in an Age of Globalisation	57	(43)
Arvind Rajagopal
Gender, Development and the Women's Movement
Problems for a History of the Present	100	(25)
Mary E. John
Gender-cleansing
The Paradox of Development and Deteriorating Female Life Chances in Tamil Nadu	125	(30)
Barbara Harriss-White
Gender, Caste and Modernity
A Reading of U.R. Anantha Murthy's ``Samskara'' in its Intellectual Context	155	(33)
Nalini Natarajan
The Impossible Subject
Caste and Desire in the Scene of the Family	188	(17)
Susie Tharu
Understanding Sirasgaon
Notes Towards Conceptualising the Role of Law, Caste and Gender in a Case of ``Atrocity''	205	(44)
Anupama Rao
Cutting to Size
Property and Gendered Identity in the Indian Higher Courts	249	(44)
Srimati Basu
Of Victims and Vigilantes
The ``Bandit Queen'' Controversy	293	(39)
Priyamvada Gopal
The Story of Draupadi's Disrobing
Meanings for Our Times	332	(28)
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Mnemosigning
Ecstasies in Pain	360
D. Venkat Rao