Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India

ISBN-13: 9780815381747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 322 str.

Ania Loomba

Opis

Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India, from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. This book traces the experiences of these women, showing how they were constrained by, but also questioned, the gendered norms of Indian political culture, including those that governed revolutionary organizations. It examines how their lives and actions and expanded the possibilities available both to women and to revolutionaries in India.

 

Spis treści

Introduction, Chapter One: The Romance of Revolution Chapter Two: Love in the Time of Revolution Chapter Three: Commune-ism Chapter 4: The Political is Personal Chapter 5: The Dance of Hunger Chapter Six: The Family Romance Chapter Seven: Becoming 'Indian', By Way of a Conclusion, Appendices

O autorze

Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published widely on early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. Her publications include Colonialism/Postcolonialism (2005) and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (2002), as well as the edited collections Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005), South Asian Feminisms (2012), and Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies (2016).