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The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari

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Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

PhilosophyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822330482
ISBN13: 9780822330486
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 9 2003
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women's actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women's identities and how, reciprocally, women and women's issues affect the state's role and function. She argues that in India law and citizenship define for women not only the scope of political rights but also cultural identity and everyday life. Sunder Rajan delineates the postcolonial state in implicit contrast with the enlightened, postfeminist neoliberal state in the West. Her analysis wrestles with complex social realities, taking into account the influence of age, ethnicity, religion, and class on individual and group identities as well as the shifting, heterogeneous nature of the state itself.

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