How can the women-as-victim be read as a resisting subject? Real and Imagined Women explores the position of the female subject in a postcolonial state. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan investigates the problematic relationship between the theory of the first world against the matter of the third - that is, she brings postcolonial theory to bear on the politics of gender, religion and the culture of contemporary India, focusing on the practice and the representaion of sati. Her writing engages with such subjects as pre-colonial Tamil and Indian texts and colonial imperialist texts; Indian writings and...
How can the women-as-victim be read as a resisting subject? Real and Imagined Women explores the position of the female subject in a postcolonial stat...
How can the women-as-victim be read as a resisting subject? Real and Imagined Women explores the position of the female subject in a postcolonial state. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan investigates the problematic relationship between the theory of the first world against the matter of the third - that is, she brings postcolonial theory to bear on the politics of gender, religion and the culture of contemporary India, focusing on the practice and the representaion of sati. Her writing engages with such subjects as pre-colonial Tamil and Indian texts and colonial imperialist texts; Indian writings and...
How can the women-as-victim be read as a resisting subject? Real and Imagined Women explores the position of the female subject in a postcolonial stat...
Jane Austen has proved to be one of the most accessible and enduring legacies of Western culture in the last 200 years. As a cultural icon, as well as an object of serious intellectual investigation, Jane Austen has influenced the critical understanding of and the popular imagination around social relations and cultural rituals - the institution of marriage, the ideology of romantic relationship, the cultural imagining of class, or social prestige - as well as larger historical pictures that include slavery and colonialism.
Jane Austen has proved to be one of the most accessible and enduring legacies of Western culture in the last 200 years. As a cultural icon, as well as...
"The Scandal of the State" is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women's actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women's identities and how, reciprocally, women and "women's issues" affect the state's role and function. She argues that in India law and citizenship define for women not only the scope of political rights but also cultural identity and everyday life. Sunder Rajan delineates the...
"The Scandal of the State" is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women's actual...
