Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History

Politics & Social Sciences

Sangari, Kumkum

Vaid, Sudesh

Social Sciences

Rutgers Univ Pr

<p>This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture and much more to create a true 'politics of the possible'.</p>

Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English (Anthem South Asian Studies)

History

Asia

Anthem Press

The essays in this book cohere around several themes: the connections between local, metropolitan and colonial geographies as they bear on debates about epistemological uncertainty; the transitional and regional production of ideologies under the aegis of colonialism; ways of theorizing women's literacy, labour and agency, and consent to patriarchal arrangements and ideologies. They can be read as mapping a politics of 'the possible'. This presents itself in several registers: as a more sensitive feminist historiography; as a reinflection of culture that keeps alternatives open for integrative political praxis; as social possibilities for the secular in a situation that seems to deny it; as historical possibilities created by contradictions that did not have inevitable outcomes; as resistant elements produced through contradictions between multiple structures of oppression. This is a reprint of the 1999 edition.

Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English

Tulika Books

Sex selection and commercial surrogacy are practices pursued in the full glare of exposure, demystification, and critique. The female-child sex ratio continues to decline while commercial surrogacy has become a fledgling (trans)national industry. Both practices produce new subjects and agents of self-directed violence, and can be tied to the inequities of 'growth' without redistribution. Yet sex selection is usually represented as a fixture of tradition and commercial surrogacy is recast as a libertarian story of market empowerment.The book attempts, first, to work through and against the common perceptions, rationales, and imaginaries that underwrite these practices, and to analyse the familial, social and market practices, the state policies, the agential modes and retraditionalizing processes which connect them. Second, it attempts to seize the formative conjunctions in the restructuring of patriarchal familial, state and (trans)national market regimes, and to define the confluences and contradictions between them. The argument revolves around the crystallization of a (trans)national reproductive formation grounded in conception and contraception that can be mapped on the relations between waged and non-waged domestic–procreative labor which converge in accumulation processes in the transition to a neoliberal economy. It considers the implications of post-Fordist redistributions of labor, manufacture and services, as well as of familial constraint and market emancipation. Given the transnational shaping of social reproduction, and of social and postsocial bodies, it asks if patriarchal practices can be defined solely on national or regional lines, and argues that neoliberal capitalism puts both fixities and flexibilities into play. The book shows how the implications of selective procreation extend far beyond the domestic domain, and reformulates the ground of left-feminist critique towards theorizing an 'open contemporaneity' that can still account for systemic structures.

Solid:Liquid: a (trans)national reproductive formation

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