Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural HistoryState University of New York Press, 1 feb. 2012 - 334 sidor Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters. |
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... nationalist writers. Chapters 6 and 7 examine traditions of female dissent, which are opposed to the idioms and material practices of woman devaluation. We argue that Meera's poetry engenders traditions of coauthoring that makes it ...
... nationalist writers. Chapters 6 and 7 examine traditions of female dissent, which are opposed to the idioms and material practices of woman devaluation. We argue that Meera's poetry engenders traditions of coauthoring that makes it ...
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... nationalist pop- ulist rhetoric of family planning in this re-emergent and modernized dis- course of femicide. We deploy the term “nationalist populist rhetoric of family planning” in this section to prevent readers from interpreting ...
... nationalist pop- ulist rhetoric of family planning in this re-emergent and modernized dis- course of femicide. We deploy the term “nationalist populist rhetoric of family planning” in this section to prevent readers from interpreting ...
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... nationalist populism in the Indira Gandhi era. Nationalist populism has its discursive roots in the First World, in the notion shared by corporate America, the U.S. government, the United Nations, and Third World governments that all ...
... nationalist populism in the Indira Gandhi era. Nationalist populism has its discursive roots in the First World, in the notion shared by corporate America, the U.S. government, the United Nations, and Third World governments that all ...
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... nationalist populism is a narrative of the “nation” within which alternative visions and political dissent is disallowed and delegitimated. Indeed, the nationalist populist rhetor speaks alone because there is no debate or dialogue in ...
... nationalist populism is a narrative of the “nation” within which alternative visions and political dissent is disallowed and delegitimated. Indeed, the nationalist populist rhetor speaks alone because there is no debate or dialogue in ...
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... nationalist populist simulacrum of the public sphere. The state embarks upon a sustained multimedia propaganda about the small family norm. Large billboards, radio jingles, television and cinema advertisements, puppet shows, politicians ...
... nationalist populist simulacrum of the public sphere. The state embarks upon a sustained multimedia propaganda about the small family norm. Large billboards, radio jingles, television and cinema advertisements, puppet shows, politicians ...
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PostEnlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room | 29 |
British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy | 57 |
4 A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform 18001854 | 101 |
5 A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform 18001854 | 129 |
6 Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition | 169 |
7 The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed | 205 |
APPENDIX | 235 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 297 |
Index | 313 |
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