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Embodied violence: communalising women's sexuality in South Asia

Jayawardena, Kumari., Alwis, Malathi de.

Year: c1996.

Publisher: Zed Books.

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Frontmatter

Preface

Introduction

Abducted Women, the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India

Rape and the Construction of Communal Identity

Gender, Nationalism(s) and Cultural Identity: Discursive Strategies and Exclusivities

Childhood and Role Models in the Andar Mahal: Muslim Women in the Private Sphere in Colonial Bengal

Sexuality in the Field of Vision: The Discursive Clothing of the Sigiriya Frescoes

Ethnicity and the Empowerment of Women: The Colonial Legacy

Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologues: The Sangh, the Samiti and Differential Concepts of the Hindu Nation

Static Signifiers: Metaphors of Women in Sri Lankan War Poetry

The Myth of 'Patriots' and 'Traitors': Pandita Ramabai, Brahmanical Patriarchy and Militant Hindu Nationalism

Institutions, Beliefs and Ideologies: Widow Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan

Notes on Contributors

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Title:

Embodied violence : communalising women's sexuality in South Asia [edited by] Kumari Jayawardena, Malathi de Alwis.

Author:

Jayawardena, Kumari; Alwis, Malathi de

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Embodied violence : communalising women's sexuality in South Asia [edited by] Kumari Jayawardena, Malathi de Alwis.
Jayawardena, Kumari, Alwis, Malathi de
London: Zed Books, c1996.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04628

Subject Headings:

• Abused women -- South Asia
• Violence -- South Asia
• Violent crimes -- South Asia
• Women -- Crimes against -- South Asia

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