| Description |
1 online resource (349 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Endorsements; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The romance of revolution; 2 Love in the time of revolution; 3 Commune-ism; 4 The political is personal; 5 The dance of hunger; 6 The family romance; 7 Becoming 'Indian'; By way of a conclusion; Appendix 1: Timeline of events mentioned in this book; Appendix 2: Notes on organizations, people and events; Index |
| Summary |
Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. Thisclose studydemonstrates how India's revolutionary womenshaped a new female - and in some cases feminist - political subject in the twentieth century, in collaboration and contestation with Indian nationalist, liberal-feminist, and European left-wing models of womenhood. Through a wide range of writings by, and about, revolutionary and communist women, including memoirs, autobiographies, novels, party documents, and interviews, Ania Loomba traces the experiences of these women, showing how they were constrained by, but also how they questioned, the gendered norms of Indian political culture. A collection of carefully restored photographs is dispersed throughout the book, helping to evoke the texture of these women's political experiences, both public and private. Revolutionary Desires is an original and important intervention into a neglected area of leftist and feminist politics in India by a major voice in feminist studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women communists -- India -- Biography
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Communism -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Feminism -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Communism.
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Feminism.
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Women communists.
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feminism.
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Communism
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Feminism
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Women communists
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351209700 |
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1351209701 |
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9781351209694 |
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1351209698 |
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9781351209687 |
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135120968X |
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9781351209717 |
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135120971X |
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0815381735 |
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9780815381730 |
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0815381743 |
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9780815381747 |
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