| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: eugenic feminism and the problem of national development -- Perfecting feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's eugenic utopias -- Regenerating feminism: Sarojini Naidu's eugenic feminist renaissance -- "World menace": national reproduction, public health, and the Mother India debate -- The vanishing peasant mother: reimagining Mother India for the 1950s -- Severed limbs, severed legacies: Indira Gandhi's emergency and the problem of subalternity -- Epilogue: transnational surrogacy and the neoliberal Mother India |
| Summary |
Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women's biological ability to 'reproduce the nation', they are participating in a eugenic project - sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United States and India, the book shows how the exclusionary impulse of eugenics is embedded within the terms of nationalist feminism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Birth control -- India.
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Birth control -- United States.
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Eugenics -- India.
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Eugenics -- United States.
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Feminism -- India.
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Feminism -- United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1452941416 (electronic bk.) |
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1452941424 (electronic bk.) |
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9781452941417 (electronic bk.) |
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9781452941424 (electronic bk.) |
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