Sarkar Visible Histories, Disappearing Women

Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8903-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarkar, Mahua

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.