Community, gender and violence
By: edited by Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan.
Contributors: Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-; Jeganathan, Pradeep.
Series: Subaltern studies ;; 11
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Women -- India -- Social conditions -- Congresses.; Women -- Sri Lanka -- Social conditions -- Congresses.; Minorities -- India -- Congresses.; India -- Politics and government -- Congresses.; Sri Lanka -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at the Fifth Subaltern Studies Conference held in Colombo in June 1995.
Table of contents: title: A greater story-writer than God : genre, gender and minority in late colonial India / Aamir R. Mufti; title: A space for violence : anthropology, politics and the location of a Sinhala practice of masculinity / Pradeep Jeganathan; title: Embodying the self : feminism, sexual violence and the law / Nivedita Menon; title: Women, marriage, and the subordination of rights / Flavia Agnes; title: Nationalism refigured : contemporary South Indian cinema and the subject of feminism / Tejaswini Niranjana; title: Hegemonic spatial strategies : the nation-space and Hindu communalism in twentieth-century India / Satish Deshpande; title: Constituting the nation, contesting nationalism : the southern Tamil (woman) and separatist Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka / Qadri Ismail; title: Toleration and historical traditions of difference / David Scott; title: Discussion : an afterword on the new subaltern / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.