Debating Women's Citizenship in India, 1930-1960
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- Synopsis
- Debating Women's Citizenship, 1930-1960 is about the coming of independence in India, and what this meant for a generation of Indian feminists and nationalists whose careers straddle this transition from the 1930s to the 1960s. It views how this generation responded to the new spaces created for the making the Indian woman as citizen, and the closing-off of others. To explore this question, the book focuses on a cohort of nationalists and feminists who were leading members the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) and the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW). It documents and analyzes the voices of this cohort in some of the key debates around nation building in Nehruvian India, and traces the range of activities and struggles engaged in by these organisations and individuals as expressions of citizenship in practice.Drawing on the richness and depth of life histories through autobiography and oral interviews, together with archival research, this book excavates “the mental products of these women's lives, their ideas, their writings and their discourse”, to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the feminist political personas of this generation, and how these personas negotiated the political and social terrains of their time. The result is to produce a new picture of this era, one in which there was far more activity and engagement with the state and with civil society on the part of this generation than previously acknowledged.
- Copyright:
- 2019
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9789388271967
- Related ISBNs:
- 9789388271943
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 06/24/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Annie Devenish, 2
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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