Visible Histories, Disappearing Women [[electronic resource] ] : Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal

• Autore: Sarkar Mahua <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/697095414
• Soggetto topico: Muslim women - History - 19th century - India - West Bengal; Muslim women - Social conditions - 19th century - India - West Bengal; Women in Islam; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; Gender Studies & Sexuality
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing Difference; The Colonial Cast: The Merchant, the Soldier, the "Writer" (Clerk), Their Lovers, and the Trouble with "Native Women's" Histories; The Politics of (In)visibility: Muslim Women in (Hindu) Nationalist Discourse; Negotiating Modernity: The Social Production of Muslim-ness in Late Colonial Bengal; Difference in Memory; Conclusion: Connections; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Visible Histories, Disappearing Women
• ISBN: 0-8223-8903-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777993403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II