Signposts: gender issues in post-independence India/
edited by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
- New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
- viii, 382 p. ; 22 cm.
Virgin mother, beloved other: the erotics of Tamil nationalism in colonial and post-colonial India / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Thinking about the new Indian middle class: gender, advertising and politics in an age of globalisation / Arvind Rajagopal -- Gender, development and the women's movement: problems for a history of the present / Mary E. John -- Gender-cleansing: the paradox of development and deteriorating female life chances in Tamil Nadu / Barbara Harriss-White -- Gender, caste and modernity: a reading of U.R. Anantha Murthy's "Samskara" in its intellectual context / Nalini Natarajan -- The impossible subject: caste and desire in the scene of the family / Susie Tharu -- Understanding Sirasgaon: notes towards conceptualising the role of law, caste and gender in a case of "atrocity" / Anupama Rao -- Cutting to size: property and gendered identity in the Indian higher courts / Srimati Basu -- Of victims and vigilantes: the "Bandit queen" controversy / Priyamvada Gopal -- The story of Draupadi's disrobing: meanings for our times / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Mnemosigning: ecstasies in pain / D. Venkat Rao.
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Sex discrimination against women Sex discrimination in employment Women--Social conditions Women in development