Of property and propriety the role of gender and class in imperialism and nationalism

Bannerji, Himani. (Added Author). Mojab, Shahrzad. (Added Author). Whitehead, Judith. (Added Author).

Summary: "This collection of essays examines property relations, moral regulations pertaining to gender, and nationalism in India, Kurdistan, Ireland, and Finland. Structured around six case studies, the contributors combine an analysis of gender with a dialectical examination of class and patriarchy to reveal how these relations have become constructed in recent nationalist movements." "Offering an alternative to post-colonial and post-structuralist formulations of gender and nationalism, the volume highlights the connections and convergences in matters of property, propriety, and gender among ideologically similar nationalist movements, and shows how ideological similarities and differences need to be understood prior to analysing the gender symbolism and patriarchal relations of nationalist histories."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442678002 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1442678003 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780802043801
ISBN: 0802043801 (bound)
ISBN: 0802081924 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780802081926
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xii, 244 p.)
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:september.18 CatMonthString:august.17 Terms of use - CatMonthString:jun.14 CatBulkString:jan.03.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-user. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Pygmalion nation : towards a critique of subaltern studies and the 'resolution of the women's question' / Himani Bannerji -- Contesting positions in nationalist ideologies in pre-independence Ireland / Dana Hearne -- Conflicting loyalties : nationalism and gender relations in Kurdistan / Shahrzad Mojab -- Measuring women's value : continuity and change in the regulation of prostitution in Madras Presidency, 1860-1947 / Judith Whitehead -- Gender and ethnic overlap/p in the Finnish Kalevala / Kaarina Kailo -- Wifehood, widowhood, and adultery : female sexuality, surveillance, and the state in eighteenth-century Maharastra / Uma Chakravarti.