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GENDERING
THE GLOBAL NATION
Geeta Patel
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Gendering the Global Nation,
rethinks the relationship between
post-colonialism, nationalisms,
racial, religious and ethinic
identifications and gender/sexualities
in the context of globalisation. Most
scholars of Indian nationalism weave
women into nationalism through
discourses of ‘traditions’. Domesticity
becomes coinage through which women are
transacted as allegories for nationhood in
local, translocal and global exchanges.
Transgressions of domestic spaces - single
women who adopt, children's bodies which threaten to turn hijra or transgender, families that accept a daughter’s
marriage to another women - tend to elicit such furore that practices and texts which transform the domestic are both widely discussed and severely suppressed. The author explores the modulations of techno-scientific discourses that undergrid these productions of domesticity as a hedge againts loss. The three movements in science engaged throughout the book are the physics of certitude, the constitution of hybridity, and the production of temporalities.
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GEET
PATEL
is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
at Wellesley College and the South Asia Studies Programme. Lyrical Movements, historical
hauntinsg: gender, colonialism in Miraji's Urdu poetry,(Stanford), reads a renegade writer through gender, sexuality, translation and grief in 20th century Urdu political and poetic movements. Her theoretical stance, informed by queer post-colonial theory is fashioned in Gendering the Global Nation. She translates prose and poetry from Urdu, Hindi and Sanskrit. Her current projects, Financing
Selves, is on risk, insurance and pensions in South Asia.
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