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dc.contributor.authorRao, Shakuntala
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-11T19:08:37Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-21T13:54:22Z
dc.date.available2018-04-11T19:08:37Z
dc.date.available2020-07-21T13:54:22Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1209
dc.descriptionOriginally published in the Women's Studies International Forum: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02775395
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this article is to explore the connection between Indian nationalism and gender identity. I provide a critique of Radhakrishnan and Chatterjee's notion of the outer/inner dichotomy of Indian nationalism by stating that religion, in postcolonial India, has emerged as a discursive totality that has subsumed the politics of indigenous or inner identity more so than other rhetoric of caste, tribal, gender, and class. I provide a groundwork for this debate via the writings of Nehru and Gandhi. I conclude, through an analysis of the practices of amniocentesis and Sati, that women and their bodies have been used as representations of the conflicts surrounding national subjectivity.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWomen's Studies International Forum
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectMedia
dc.subjectEthics
dc.titleWoman-As-Symbol: Intersections of Indian Nationalism, Gender, and Identity
dc.typeArticle
refterms.dateFOA2020-07-21T13:56:23Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Plattsburgh


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