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GENDER
IN THE HINDU NATION: RSS
WOMEN AS IDEOLOGUES
Paola Bacchetta
Rs 200 Hb 2004
81-88965-02-2
(All rights available.) |
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The
three insightful essays in this volume offer a detailed
account of women who are active in the Rashtriya
Sevika Samiti. It analyses differences in their,
and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s articulation
of the place that women occupy in their ideology,
in symbolic space, and in a Hindu Rashtra. Based
on carefully researched archival material, secondary
sources, including RSS publications and documents,
and personal interviews, this is a theoretically
sophisticated and empirically rich contribution
to an analysis of the nation and the RSS. |
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PAOLA
BACCHETTA
is Associate Professor
of Women’s Studies at the University of California
- Berkeley. She is co-editor of Right-Wing
Women: From Conservatives to Extremists around the
World (2002), and Bodies on the Line: Rethinking
Political Conflict and Violence through Gender and
Sexuality (forthcoming).
She has published on gender, sexuality, Hindu nationalism,
political conflict, race, and feminist and queer
movements in various journals. |
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