Muscular nationalism
Subtitle: gender, violence, and empire in India and Ireland, 1914-2004
By: Sikata Banerjee
Series: Gender and political violence series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780814789766; 9780814789773; 9780814723319
Subjects: Colonies; Women; Nationalism; Masculinity; History
Description: Concerned chiefly with views and events of the 19th and 20th centuries. Discusses deviations from a putative ideal of femininity characterised by chastity and inactivity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.