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Eugenic Feminism [[electronic resource] ] : Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India



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Autore: Nadkarni Asha Visualizza persona
Titolo: Eugenic Feminism [[electronic resource] ] : Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
Disciplina: 305.420954
Soggetto topico: Feminism - India
Feminism - United States
Eugenics - India
Eugenics - United States
Birth control - India
Birth control - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Eugenic Feminism and the Problem of National Development; 1 Perfecting Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eugenic Utopias; 2 Regenerating Feminism: Sarojini Naidu's Eugenic Feminist Renaissance; 3 "World Menace": National Reproduction, Public Health, and the Mother India Debate; 4 The Vanishing Peasant Mother: Reimagining Mother India for the 1950's; 5 Severed Limbs, Severed Legacies: Indira Gandhi's Emergency and the Problem of Subalternity; EPILOGUE: Transnational Surrogacy and the Neoliberal Mother India; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index;
Sommario/riassunto: Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women's biological ability to "reproduce the nation" they are participating in a eugenic project-sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United States and India, Nadkarni shows how the exclusionary impulse of eugenics is embedded within the terms of nationalist feminism. Nadkarni reveals connections between U.S. and Indian nationalist feminisms from the late nineteenth century through the 1970's, demonstrating that both call for
Titolo autorizzato: Eugenic Feminism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4141-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819261803321
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