Sunder Rajan / Grewal / Kaplan The Scandal of the State

Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8483-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

A major postcolonial feminist theorist explores the gendered nature of citizenship and the state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari

Grewal, Inderpal

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1. Introduction: Women, Citizenship, Law, and the Indian State 1

I. Women in Custody

2. The Ameena “Case”: The Female Citizen and Subject 41

3. Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, Family, and State 72

II. Women in Law

4. The Prostitution Question(s): Female Agency, Sexuality, and Work 117

5. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates 147

III. Killing Women

6. Children of the State?: Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamilnadu 177

7. Outlaw Woman: The Politics of Phoolan Devi’s Surrender, 1983 212

Notes 237

References 279

Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Reader in English and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture, and Postcolonialism and editor of Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India.