Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologues
Bacchetta, Paola
List Price : US$ 17.24 Our Price : US$ 13.79
You Save 20% + FREE DELIVERY WORLDWIDE
PRODUCT DETAILS
Book ID : 20093
ISBN-10 : 81-88965-02-2 / 8188965022
ISBN-13 : 978-81-88965-02-1 / 9788188965021
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2004
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
v, 144p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologues: The Sangh, the Samiti and their differential concepts of the Hindu Nation. 2. "All Our Goddesses Are Armed.": Religion, resistance and revenge in the life of a militant Hindu nationalist woman. 3. Communal Property/Sexual Property: On representations of Muslim women in a Hindu nationalist discourse.
DESCRIPTION
The three insightful essays in this volume offer a detailed account of women who are active in the RSS. It analyses differences in their, and the RSS articulation of the place that woman occupy in their ideology, in symbolic space, and in a Hindu Rashtra. Based on carefully researched archival material, secondary sources including RSS publications and documents, and personal interviews, this is a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich contribution to an analysis of the nation and the RSS.
