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| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Interrogating Motherhood Jasodhara Bagchi, 2017-02-28 Explores the many insights of Indian and western feminists analyses of motherhood both as ideology and as practice. Interrogating Motherhood, the fourth title in the Theorizing Feminism Series, reveals that an understanding of motherhood is vitally important to understanding Indian society. The ideas and practice of motherhood changed once India became a part of a global capitalist system. The book analyses motherhood both as ideology and as practice, and the complexities between motherhood and mothering where the concepts are glorified but the women remain subordinate. It further explores Indian and western feminists’ insights, examines the significance of mother goddesses, discusses regulations on motherhood in the wake of nation-building, and reveals the vulnerability of motherhood to the coercion of invasive technology and pressures of patriarchy where a woman must not only be a mother but also the mother of a son. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Citizen Refugee Uditi Sen, 2018-08-30 Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan Ruby Lal, 2018-07-03 Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History A luminous biography. —Rafia Zakaria, Guardian Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, leading troops into battle, signing imperial orders, and astutely handling matters of the state. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire. In Empress, Nur Jahan finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Divine love Morny Joy, 2013-07-19 Divine love explores the work of Luce Irigaray from the perspective of religious studies. The book examines the development of religious themes in Irigaray’s work from Speculum of the Other Woman, in which she rejects traditional forms of western religion, to her more recent explorations of eastern religions. Irigaray’s ideas on love, the divine, the ethics of sexual difference and normative heterosexuality are analysed and placed in the context of the reception of her work by secular feminists such as Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz, as well as by feminists in Religious Studies such as Pamela Sue Anderson, Ellen Armour, Amy Hollywood and Grace Jantzen. Finally, Irigaray’s own spiritual path, which has been influenced by eastern religions, specifically the disciplines of yoga and tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism, is evaluated in the light of recent theoretical developments in orientalism and postcolonialism. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Motherhood in India Maithreyi Krishnaraj, 2012-04-27 This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman’s life is manufactured. This is demonstrated by analysing various institutional structures of society – language, religion, media, law and technology. The articles in this book are chronologically arranged, tracing the different stages that motherhood as a concept has traversed in India – from goddess worship to nationalism, to being a vehicle of reproduction of the sexual division of labour and the inheritance of property via the male-line. Underlying these stages are the dialectics between them that have been facilitated by agents such as the state – the ultimate controller of a woman’s reproductive powers. The feminist critique of ‘essentialising’ the role of a woman has been employed to deconstruct and humanise the experiences and lives of mothers. This anthology therefore attempts to initiate a meaningful and ‘sensitive’ engagement with issues pertaining to a woman’s autonomy over her body and her role also as a mother. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Rudali Mahāśvetā Debī, Usha Ganguli, 2008 Based on the life struggle of Sanichari, a poor low-caste village woman. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The Concept of Motherhood in India Zinia Mitra, 1920-02 This book presents an overview of heterogeneous and homogeneous exemplifications of the concept of motherhood from ancient times until the present day. It discusses the centrality of motherhood in womenâ (TM)s lives, and considers the ways in which the ideology of motherhood and the concept of ideal motherhood are manufactured. This is validated through analysis of various institutional structures of society, including archetypes, religion, and media. The first section of the book locates motherhood in its historical context, and rereads the myths surrounding it as overarching social constructs. The second part explores the different theories, which have developed around motherhood, in order to outline and understand the concept. The section also looks at the lived reality of motherhood. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The Politics of the Female Body Ketu Katrak, 2006-02-15 Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English language, including Anita Desai from India, Ama Ata Aidoo from Ghana, and Merle Hodge from Trinidad, among others. The writers share colonial histories, a sense of solidarity, and resistance strategies in the on-going struggles of decolonization that center on the body. Bringing together a rich selection of primary texts, Katrak examines published novels, poems, stories, and essays, as well as activist materials, oral histories, and pamphlets—forms that push against the boundaries of what is considered strictly literary. In these varied materials, she reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries. A unique comparative look at women’s literary work and its relationship to the body in third world societies, this text will be of interest to literary scholars and to those working in the fields of postcolonial studies and women’s studies. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Indian Women, Myth and Reality Jasodhara Bagchi, 1995 Contributed seminar papers. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande, 1989 Jay'S Life Comes Apart At The Seams When Her Husband Is Asked To Leave His Job While Allegations Of Business Malpractice Against Him Are Investigated. Her Familiar Existence Disrupted, Her Husband'S Reputation In Question And Their Future As A Family In Jeopardy, Jaya, A Failed Writer, Is Haunted By Memories Of The Past. Differences With Her Husband, Frustrations In Their Seventeen-Year-Old Marriage, Disappointment In Her Two Teenage Children, The Claustrophia Of Her Childhood&Amp;Mdash;All Begin To Surface. In Her Small Suburban Bombay Flat, Jaya Grapples With These And Other Truths About Herself&Amp;Mdash;Among Them Her Failure At Writing And Her Fear Of Anger. Shashi Deshpande Gives Us An Exceptionally Accomplished Portrayal Of A Woman Trying To Erase A 'Long Silence' Begun In Childhood And Rooted In Herself And In The Constraints Of Her Life. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World Ruby Lal, 2005-09-22 This 2005 book looks at domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Remembering Revolution Srila Roy, 2012-10-18 Remembering Revolution constitutes one of the first major studies of women's role and involvement in the late 1960s' radical Left Naxalbari movement of West Bengal, the birthplace of Indian Maoism. relation to women's involvement in the late 1960s' radical Naxalbari movement of West Bengal. Drawing from historiographic, popular, and personal memoirs, it provides an innovative conceptual analysis of the Naxalbari movement principally in terms of gender, violence, and subjectivity. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The Trauma and the Triumph S. Hussain, 2005-02-01 This book discusses explicitly the trauma of the Partition of 1947 in Eastern India in a way that has not happened before. The lack of overt public discourse has meant that people outside Bengal believed that the impact of Partition was limited in the east. Indeed, the sufferings, the loss of life, livelihoods and of shelter were very real but of a different nature from the fast-moving horror of the Punjab. In the east it seemed more like an oozing wound. The editors have drawn upon interviews with women who were uprooted, on diaries, memoirs and creative literature. The book provides an invaluable discussion on displacement, rape, loss, and why women pay the price. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The Frail Hero and Virile History Indira Chowdhury, 2001 Demonstrating The Centrality Of Gender In The Formation Of A National Identity, This Book Opens Up Fresh Ways Of Scrutinising The Links Between Nationalism And Indian Modernity, Examining How Indigenous Cultural Forms Are Constructed For A Modern Political Identity. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The Concept of Motherhood in India Zinia Mitra, 2020-02-09 This book presents an overview of heterogeneous and homogeneous exemplifications of the concept of motherhood from ancient times until the present day. It discusses the centrality of motherhood in women’s lives, and considers the ways in which the ideology of motherhood and the concept of ideal motherhood are manufactured. This is validated through analysis of various institutional structures of society, including archetypes, religion, and media. The first section of the book locates motherhood in its historical context, and rereads the myths surrounding it as overarching social constructs. The second part explores the different theories, which have developed around motherhood, in order to outline and understand the concept. The section also looks at the lived reality of motherhood. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Coming Out of Partition Gargi Chakravartty, 2025-06-30 Out of Partition is a narrative of the Bengali refugee women, both Hindus and Muslims after the Partition of India in 1947. The story of their struggle is not merely a saga of mental and physical trauma, which did exist, but also a portrayal of their hardship experiences for shelter, rehabilitation and employment. In this arduous journey, they came out of Partition and emerged as new women of a distinct category, self-reliant, and soon turned into social, cultural and political activists of a progressive secular dimension. Spaces and roles they could acquire in this new alien situation were earlier denied in their sheltered and secure places in the pre-Partition days. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Seeing Like a Feminist Nivedita Menon, 2012-12-01 THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS For Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. From sexual harassment charges against international figures to the challenge that caste politics poses to feminism, from the ban on the veil in France to the attempt to impose skirts on international women badminton players, from queer politics to domestic servants’ unions to the Pink Chaddi campaign, Menon deftly illustrates how feminism complicates the field irrevocably. Incisive, eclectic and politically engaged, Seeing like a Feminist is a bold and wide-ranging book that reorders contemporary society. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism Prarthana Purkayastha, 2014-10-29 This book examines modern dance as a form of embodied resistance to political and cultural nationalism in India through the works of five selected modern dance makers: Rabindranath Tagore, Uday Shankar, Shanti Bardhan, Manjusri Chaki Sircar and Ranjabati Sircar. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: So Near, Yet So Far Manujendra Kundu, 2016 An engineer by profession, an active Communist Party member, and an influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (1925-2011) penned several acclaimed plays during the turbulent period of the late 1960s and 1970s in West Bengal. He is known for bringing new idioms into theatrical praxis. His own brand of experimental discourse, the Third Theatre, is an urban theatre that is characterized by flexibility--intermingling of the performer and the audience to bring the two closer to each other, and low cost of production. To date, his art influences theatre practitioners not only in South Asia, but around the world. Covering the career of this legendary dramatist, Manujendra Kundu traces the journey of theatre in nineteenth-century Bengal from folk culture to the proscenium to open-air performances. Based on his study of over 50 plays by Sircar, both published and unpublished, Kundu brings to the fore the lost voices of some members of the Third Theatre. Comprising some rare photographs of performances by Sircars theatre group, Satabdi, this book is an authentic history of the formation, and the subsequent decline, of Badal Sircars Third Theatre. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: A Space of Her Own Leela Gulati, Jasodhara Bagchi, 2005-05-01 Several books have been written about the position of women in India’s patriarchal society. This collection of twelve narratives, however, focuses not so much on women’s subservient position vis-a-vis men, but on women’s relations with each other. With the authors locating their personal struggles within those of three generations of women in their families, these narratives span a period of over a 100 years, and intersect both the private and public domains. Each narrative in A Space of Her Own is a tale of how the author fought to establish her own personhood and create a sphere of autonomy where she is able to make decisions to nurture herself and those around her. It is stories such as these, the editors argue which, when repeated over generations, will inspire women to live with dignity and to create and defend lives for themselves, their families, and the women who follow them.... |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Media Worlds Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin, 2002-10-23 This landmark collection maps and motivates the anthropological voice in media studies by locating the media in worlds of practice, sentiment, debate and dissent. Using such vivid examples as the image management of the Dalai Lama and the social organization of Nigerian cinema theatres, the authors remind us that media machineries are not more magical than the social worlds they inhabit and project. [Back cover]. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Maternal Fictions Indrani Karmakar, 2022-05-19 This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women’s fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts. Situated at the crossroads of motherhood studies and literary studies, this book offers a rigorous examination of the prosody and politics of motherhood in this corpus. In its five thematically focused chapters, the book scrutinises in depth such key concerns as maternal ambivalence; maternal agency and caste; mother–daughter relationships; motherhood and diaspora; and non-biological motherhood. It attempts to understand the literary ramifications of these issues in order to identify the ways in which fiction writers reconceive of the notion of motherhood and maternal identities from and against multiple perspectives. Another pressing concern is whether these Indian women writers’ visions furnish readers with any different understandings of motherhood as compared to dominant Western feminist discourses. Maternal Fictions advances feminist literary criticism in the specific area of Indian women’s writing and the overarching areas of motherhood and literature by acting as a launchpad into a complex constellation of ideas concerning motherhood. The fictional universe is at once ambivalent, diverse, contingent, grounded in a specific location, and yet well placed to converse with discourses emanating from other times and places. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen Susan Liddy, Deirdre Flynn, 2025-04-25 The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen offers a comprehensive global analysis of the representation of Mothers and Motherhood in contemporary screen industries and online spaces. Over five distinct sections, this handbook examines how the complexities and realities of contemporary motherhood are translated to the screen. Offering a full scholarly overview of the field, this handbook provides a ground-breaking and important contribution to our understanding of motherhood on screen. The geographical and genre reach of the handbook presents new ways of theorising and reframing current scholarly debate, and gives a wide-ranging and comprehensive contribution to knowledge of on-screen representations. An international team of established scholars and emerging voices provide analysis of representations from around the world, spanning a breadth of genres. The chapters situate transnational screen representations of motherhood in the 21st Century and assess the implications of contemporary representation of motherhood. Thoroughly challenging and expanding understandings of motherhood and mothers, this handbook will be an essential multi-faceted publication for researchers and students of film, TV, animation, motherhood, gender studies, feminism, ageing studies, anthropology and sociology. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Motherhood and Choice Amrita Nandy, 2017-10-02 How can women live fully? If autonomy is critical for humans, why do women have little or no choice vis-à-vis motherhood? Do women know they have a choice, if they do? How 'free' are these choices in a context where the self is socially mired and deeply enmeshed into the familial? What are implications of motherhood on how human relatedness and belonging are defined? These questions underlie Amrita Nandy's remarkable research on motherhood as an institution, one that conflates 'woman' with 'mother' and 'personal' with 'political'. As the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged norm of 'normal' female lives, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers—symbolic and corporeal. Even though the ideology of pronatalism and motherhood reinforce reproductive technology and vice versa, the care work of mothering suffers political neglect and economic devaluation. However, motherhood (and non-motherhood) is not just physiological. As the pivot to a web of heteronormative institutions (such as marriage and the family), motherhood bears an overwhelming and decisive influence on women's lives. Against the weight of traditional and contemporary histories, socio-political discourse and policies, this study explores how women, as embodiments of multiple identities, could live stigma-free, 'authentic' lives without having to abandon reproductive 'self'-determination. Published by Zubaan. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Negotiating Non-Motherhood Jenny Björklund, Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, Julie Rodgers, 2024-11-14 This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. While involuntary and voluntary childlessness have typically been treated separately and studied within different disciplines in most previous scholarship, contributing authors explore non-motherhood beyond the involuntary/voluntary divide and consider a wide range of conceptualizations of women who do not become mothers. The editors bring together a variety of perspectives from different national contexts and disciplines, including family studies, gender studies, literary and cultural studies, sociology, and film studies to explore non-motherhood. The book focuses on how women who choose or experience non-motherhood are negotiated, felt, represented, and received. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Mapping the Field Nirmala Banerjee, Samita Sen, Nandita Dhawan, 2011 This is the first of four readers for students of women's studies, particularly for Masters' level courses in women's studies, and more generally across undergraduate and certificate courses as the concept of 'gender' has been introduced at all levels of curricula. The reader reflects many of the concerns that have come up in women's studies across two decades. This first volume focuses on some of the major economic and social debates in women's studies; the second volume traces the trajectory of more recent theoretical shifts in the field. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Sexuality, Obscenity and Community C. Gupta, 2002-05-30 Through analysis of an impressive array of 'low' and 'high' Hindu literatures, particularly pamphlets, tracts, newspapers, and archival data, Gupta explores the emerging discourse of gender and sexuality, which was essential to the development of notions of Hindu communitality and nationalism in the colonial period. The book offers an exceptionally nuanced account of Hindi gender politics. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The Location of Culture Homi K. Bhabha, 2004 Using concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity and liminality to argue that cultural production is always at its most prolific when it is ambivalent, the author proposes ideas for rethinking identity, social agency and national affiliation. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Undoing Impunity V. Geetha, 2016-11-28 The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important - yet silenced - subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India, as well as two standalone volumes) comprising over fifty research papers and two book-length studies, detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic, institutional, societal, individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators. In this remarkable and wide-ranging study, activist and historian V. Geetha unpacks the meanings of impunity in relation to sexual violence in the context of South Asia. The State's misuse of its own laws against its citizens is only one aspect of the edifice of impunity; its less-understood resilience comes from its consistent denial of the recognition of suffering on the part of victims, and its refusal to allow them the dignity of pain, grief and loss. Time and again, in South Asia, the State has worked to mediate public memory, to manipulate forgetting, particularly in relation to its own acts of commission. It has done this by refusing to take responsibility, not only for its acts but also for the pain such acts have caused. It has denied suffering the eloquence, the words, the expression that it deserves and papered over the hurt of its people with routine government procedures. The author argues that the State and its citizens must work together to accord social recognition to the suffering of victims and survivors of sexual violence, and thereby join in what she calls 'a shared humanity'. While this may or may not produce legal victories, the acknowledgment that the suffering of our fellow citizens is our collective responsibility is an essential first step towards securing justice. It is this that in a fundamental sense challenges and illuminates the contours and details of State impunity, and positions impunity as not merely a legal or political conundrum, but as resolute refusal on the part of State personnel to be part of a shared humanity. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Loved and Unloved Jasodhara Bagchi, Jaba Guha, 1997 Why does this book speak of the girl child and not of the child, whether boy or girl? The girl child is the endangered sex in our society. She remains entrapped in a complex social process that 'naturalises' her deprivation. Her place is within the family which traditionally has been viewed as a specially nurturing and protecting institution for her. Critically examining this view, the authors raise vital questions on gender-based discrimination within the family. Thirteen case studies poignantly reveal the way discrimination occurs. The authors have used the data for West Bengal compiled by the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, as part of the national project on the girl child that was sponsored by the Indian government and carried out in twenty two women's studies centres. The book surveys 600 sample households, covering girls aged 7-18 years in selected rural and urban areas. It offers detailed analysis of the girl child's mother and her perceptions of her children; her daughters in particular. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Is the Goddess a Feminist? Alf Hiltebeitel, 2002 |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Partition Literature and Cinema Jaydip Sarkar, Rupayan Mukherjee, 2020-04-30 This book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It discusses Partition as not just an immediate historical catastrophe but as a lingering cultural presence and consequently a potent trope in literary and visual representations. The volume features essays on key texts -- written and visual -- including Train to Pakistan, Toba Tek Singh, Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others. Partition Literature and Cinema will be indispensable introductory reading for students and researchers of modern Indian history, Partition studies, literature, film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine Michael J. McNeal, 2023-07-27 By re-examining Nietzsche's notion of the “eternal-feminine” and his views on women and feminism, this volume offers new perspectives on some of his key ideas. It brings together a diverse group of scholars to critically engage with Nietzsche's use of late-19th-century gender stereotypes and the ways in which they served his critique of values, including his use of “woman” as a trope for truth. Among other subjects, the contributors consider the role of psychology in Nietzsche's thought, his concern with style, self-creation, and advocacy of perfectionism, his views on romantic love and marriage, and his aim of revaluing all values to instigate a distant philosophy of the future. They investigate parallels between Nietzsche's thought and Shaktism, his relation to Goethe and Stendahl, and his influence on Beauvoir, Butler, and Dohm. With the inclusion of two seminal essays on Nietzsche and women by Lawrence J. Hatab and Kelly Oliver, the volume also illustrates some of the ways in which scholarship on these subjects has evolved over the last four decades. Providing fresh insights into these inter-related subjects, Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine highlights the enduring relevance of his thought and its still-underappreciated potential for re-thinking both the bases for and aims of feminism and other emancipatory movements. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Thinking Social Science in India Sujata Patel, Jasodhara Bagchi, Krishna Raj, 2002-05-23 This festschrift to Alice Horner is primarily concerned with the thematic concerns that motivated Horner and her late husband in their scholarly work: work and labor, industrialization and capitalism, family and household, demography and culture, and politics. Thirty- one essays, presented by Patel (sociology, U. of Pune, India), Bagchi (women's studies, Jadavpur U., India) and Raj (editor, The Economic and Political Weekly), are divided into four sections that explore themes and methodologies used by Horner in analyzing agrarian Indian and gender, elaborate aspects of economic change since Indian independence, explore cultural assessment of contemporary India, and relate the colonial heritage to the contemporary political process. Also includes an appreciation of Horner and a bibliography of her writings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The Binding Vine Shashi Deshpande, 2002-09-01 “There can be no vaulting over time,” thinks Urmila, the narrator of Shashi Deshpande’s profound and soul-stirring novel. “We have to walk every step of the way, however difficult or painful it is; we can avoid nothing.” After the death of her baby, Urmila finds her own path difficult to endure. But through her grief, she is drawn into the lives of two very different women—one her long-dead mother-in-law, a thwarted writer, the other a young woman who lies unconscious in a hospital bed. And it is through these quiet, unexpected connections that Urmi begins her journey toward healing. The miracle of The Binding Vine, and of Shashi Deshpande's deeply compassionate vision, is that out of this web of loss and despair emerge strand of life and hope—a binding vine of love, concern, and connection that spreads across chasms of time, social class, and even death. In moving and exquisitely understated prose, Deshpande renders visible the extraordinary endurance and grace concealed in women's everyday lives. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Women's Studies in India Mary E. John, 2008 Women&Rsquo;S Studies First Emerged In India During The 1970S As A Forceful Critique Of Those Processes That Had Made Women Invisible&Nbsp;After Independence&Mdash;Invisible Not Only To Society And The State, But Also To Higher Education And Its Disciplines.&Nbsp;Since That Beginning, So Much Has Happened In This Already Vast Field That It Would Be Hard To Find A Major Issue Or Subject That Has Not Been Addressed By Scholars And Activists.&Nbsp; This Comprehensive Reader Sets Out To Provide A Map Of The Development Of Women&Rsquo;S Studies And The Ever Expanding Terrain That It Has Been Investigating.&Nbsp;The Introduction Explores The Growth Of The Field From The Upheavals Of The 1970S To The Transformed Conjunctures Of The 1990S. In The Process, The Often Elusive Relationships Between Women&Rsquo;S Studies, The Women&Rsquo;S Movement And The Structures Of Higher Education Are Highlighted.&Nbsp;Over Eighty Edited Essays Have Been Brought Together In This Single Volume Under Distinct Thematic Clusters&Mdash;From The New Beginnings Of The 1970S To Politics, History, Development, Violence, The Law, Education, Health, Family And Household, Caste And Tribe, Religion And Communalism, Sexualities, And Literature And The Media.&Nbsp;This Reader Is For Both Newcomers To Women&Rsquo;S Studies And For Those Who Have Long Been Part Of It.&Nbsp; |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: The blood of the vampire Florence Marryat, 2022-08-21 In Florence Marryat's intriguing novel, The Blood of the Vampire, readers are drawn into a gripping narrative that masterfully intertwines elements of Gothic horror and psychological exploration. The story revolves around the enigmatic figure of the vampire, a character whose blood is believed to bestow dark powers, symbolizing the fear of the unknown and the anxieties surrounding female empowerment in the late Victorian era. Marryat's prose reflects a keen understanding of the genre's conventions, blending rich descriptive imagery with suspenseful pacing that captivates and horrifies simultaneously, offering a fresh perspective on the vampire mythos that critiques societal norms. Florence Marryat, a prolific writer and suffragist, drew from her own progressive views and experiences as a woman in a male-dominated literary landscape. Her background as a popular novelist and her involvement in the issues of her time, particularly concerning women's rights and identity, fueled her exploration of themes like sexuality, power dynamics, and the supernatural in this work. This ambivalence towards the dual nature of femininity resonates powerfully throughout the narrative, echoing the broader social tensions of the period. The Blood of the Vampire is a captivating read that provides not only entertainment but also a deep reflection on societal anxieties regarding womanhood and power. For readers interested in Gothic fiction, feminist literature, or psychological thrillers, Marryat's novel stands as a thought-provoking testament to the complexities of human nature and the supernatural, making it an essential addition to the canon of Victorian literature. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Family Studies Anuja Agrawal, 2024-10-31 Within the social, political, and economic contexts existing in modern-day India, family is neither a simple remnant of tradition nor a domain merely representing insulated private lives. Rather, it is implicated in malleable yet overpowering structures, relationships, and practices. If the 'family' is a crucial site of ideological and imaginative investments playing a critical role in reproducing and defining contemporary selves and societies, 'families' are responsive to and constrained by the complex dynamics in which they are enmeshed. Family relationships remain fundamental to survival and security even as policy and legislative imperatives as well as reproductive and communication technologies play a crucial role in reshaping them. Critically interrogating the extant approaches to and concepts within the study of family, Family Studies brings together diverse contributions by scholars from varied backgrounds to focus upon issues central to the conceptualization of family and their implications for Indian society. The chapters in this volume make a strong case for why family as an ideological construct and families as a multitude of lived relationships should continue to be subjects of critical social scientific attention. |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed Pramod K. Nayar, 2010-10-21 Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and ideas. Beginning with the historical origins of postcolonial thought in the writings of Gandhi, Cesaire and Fanon, this guide moves on to Edward Said's articulation into a critical approach and finally to postcolonialism's multiple forms in contemporary critical thinking, including theorists such as Bhabha, Spivak, Arif Dirlik and Aijaz Ahmed. Written in jargon-free language and illustrated with examples from literary and cultural texts, this book addresses the many concerns, forms and 'specializations' of postcolonialism, including gender and sexuality studies, the nations and nationalism, space and place, history and politics. It explains the key ideas, concepts and approaches in what is arguably the most influential and politically edged critical approach in literary and cultural theory today |
| interrogating motherhood jasodhara bagchi: 'Bad' Women of Bombay Films Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy, Sharmila Purkayastha, 2019-12-06 This book presents a feminist mapping of the articulation and suppression of female desire in Hindi films, which comprise one of modern India’s most popular cultural narratives. It explores the lineament of evil and the corresponding closure of chastisement or domesticity that appear as necessary conditions for the representation of subversive female desire. The term ‘bad’ is used heuristically, and not as a moral or essential category, to examine some of the iconic disruptive women of Hindi cinema and to uncover the nexus between patriarchy and other hierarchies, such as class, caste and religion in these representations. The twenty-one essays examine the politics of female desire/s from the 1930s to the present day - both through in-depth analyses of single films and by tracing the typologies in multiple films. The essays are divided into five sections indicating the various gendered desires and rebellions that patriarchal society seeks to police, silence and domesticate. |
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INTERROGATING definition: 1. present participle of interrogate 2. to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time in order…. Learn more.
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To interrogate someone is not just asking a few polite questions over a cup of tea. When you interrogate someone there is usually a method to the questioning with a specific mission in …
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To examine by questioning formally or officially. See Synonyms at ask. 2. Computers To transmit a signal for setting off an appropriate response. [Middle English enterrogate, from Latin …
INTERROGATE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Interrogate definition: to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.. See examples of INTERROGATE …
interrogate verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and ...
interrogate something (specialist) to obtain information from a computer or other machine. Definition of interrogate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, …
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To ask questions of formally or closely, in examining. To interrogate a witness. To transmit a signal for setting off an appropriate response. To question or quiz, especially in a thorough …
INTERROGATE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of INTERROGATE is to question formally and systematically. How to use interrogate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Interrogate.
INTERROGATING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
INTERROGATING definition: 1. present participle of interrogate 2. to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time in order…. Learn more.
Interrogate - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
To interrogate someone is not just asking a few polite questions over a cup of tea. When you interrogate someone there is usually a method to the questioning with a specific mission in …
Interrogating - definition of ... - The Free Dictionary
To examine by questioning formally or officially. See Synonyms at ask. 2. Computers To transmit a signal for setting off an appropriate response. [Middle English enterrogate, from Latin …
INTERROGATE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Interrogate definition: to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.. See examples of INTERROGATE used …
interrogate verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and ...
interrogate something (specialist) to obtain information from a computer or other machine. Definition of interrogate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, …
Interrogate Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
To ask questions of formally or closely, in examining. To interrogate a witness. To transmit a signal for setting off an appropriate response. To question or quiz, especially in a thorough …
