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Embodied violence : communalising women's sexuality in South Asia / edited by Kumari Jayawardena and Malathi de Alwis.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi : Kali for Women, 1996.Description: xxiv, 299 p. ; 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.83 JAY
Contents:
1. Abducted women, the state and questions of honour; 2. Rape and the construction of communal identity; 3. Gender nationalism; 4. Childhood and role models in the Andar Mahal; 5. Sexuality in the field of vision; 6. Ethnicity and the empowerment of women; 7. Hindu nationalist women as ideologues; 8. Static signifiers. 9. The myth of patriots and traitors; 10. Institutions beliefs and ideologies.
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Copyright: Social Scientists' Association.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Abducted women, the state and questions of honour;
2. Rape and the construction of communal identity;
3. Gender nationalism;
4. Childhood and role models in the Andar Mahal;
5. Sexuality in the field of vision;
6. Ethnicity and the empowerment of women;
7. Hindu nationalist women as ideologues;
8. Static signifiers.
9. The myth of patriots and traitors;
10. Institutions beliefs and ideologies.