Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 [electronic resource] : Contagions of Feeling /
Prasad, Srirupa.author.
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.
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Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene -- Hygiene, Colonialism, and Affective Histories -- Objects, Affect, and Hygiene -- Methods and Sources -- Outline of Chapters -- Alimentary Anxieties : Affect in Food and Hunger -- Histories of Food and the Body -- Food Adulteration, Embodiment and the Politics of Anxiety -- Famine's Bodies -- Body, Hygiene, and Affective Politics of Gandhi's Swaraj -- Body, Affect, and Gandhi -- Gandhi's Fasts -- Race and Gandhi's Politics of Hygiene -- Medicine as Contagion -- Imagining the Social Body : Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion -- Locating Women's Writings on Care in Early 20th Century India -- Memorable Objects : Childhood, Memory, and Care in Shukhalata Rao's Writings -- Memorable Spaces : Suffering and Education of Care in Priyabala Gupta's Memoir -- Traveling Memories : Wandering and Care in Purnasashi Debi's Autobiography -- Affective Remedies : Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene -- Enchantments of Empire and Nation -- Advertising, Consumer Culture, and Empire -- Advertisements and Pluralist Medical Marketplace -- Advertising Beauty, Womanhood, and Domesticity -- Contagion of Advertisements.
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.
Social history.
Asia-History.
General practice (Medicine).
Public health.
History, Modern.
Social History.
Asian History.
General Practice / Family Medicine.
History of South Asia.
Public Health.
Modern History.