Community,
Gender and Violence/edited by Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan. Reprint.
Delhi, Permanent Black, 2007, x, 348 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-7824-033-5.
[Subaltern Studies XI].
Community,
Gender and Violence/edited by Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan. Reprint.
Delhi, Permanent Black, 2007, x, 348 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-7824-033-5.
[Subaltern Studies XI].
Contents: Preface. Notes on contribution. 1. A greater story-writer than God: genre, gender and minority in late colonial India/Aamir R. Mufti. 2. A space for violence: anthropology, politics and the location of a Sinhala practice of masculinity/Pradeep Jeganathan. 3. Embodying the self: feminism, sexual violence and the law/Nivedita Menon. 4. Women, marriage, and the subordination of rights/Flavia Agnes. 5. Nationalism refigured: contemporary South Indian Cinema and the subject of feminism/Tejaswini Niranjana. 6. Hegemonic spatial strategies: the nation-space and Hindu communalism in twentieth-century India/Satish Deshpande. 7. Constituting nation, contesting nationalism: the Southern Tamil (Woman) and separatist Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka/Qadri Ismail. 8. Toleration and historical traditions of difference/David Scott. 9. Discussion: an afterword on the New Subaltern/Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Glossary. Index.
"Subaltern Studies' has been widely recognised as the most exciting intervention in Indian historical and cultural studies over the past two decades. This volume confronts a whole range of new issues raised by the relations between community, gender, and the politics of violence.
One set of essays looks at the question of 'women and nation', especially minorities. Another set looks at women and minorities in the context of the law. Political violence and 'masculinity' are the subject of two essays, while in her summation of the issues raised by the volume as a whole Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak considers the position of the 'new subaltern' -- the third-world labouring woman--within a globalized economic space."