Women Speak Nation: Gender, Culture, and Politics - Paperback

by Panchali Ray (Editor)

This book underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. It questions the gendered depictions of the nation as Hindu, upper caste, middle-class, heterosexual, able bodied Indian mother. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender, politics, and South Asian history.

Author Biography

Panchali Ray is an independent researcher based in New Delhi, India. She is the author of Politics of Precarity: Gendered Subjects and the Health Care Industry in Contemporary Kolkata. Her areas of interest include labour, migration, violence, sexualities, and collective politics.