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Eugenic Feminism : Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India /

Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women's biological ability to 'reproduce the nation', they are participating in a eugenic project - sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nadkarni, Asha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: eugenic feminism and the problem of national development
  • Perfecting feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's eugenic utopias
  • Regenerating feminism: Sarojini Naidu's eugenic feminist renaissance
  • "World menace": national reproduction, public health, and the Mother India debate
  • The vanishing peasant mother: reimagining Mother India for the 1950s
  • Severed limbs, severed legacies: Indira Gandhi's emergency and the problem of subalternity
  • Epilogue: transnational surrogacy and the neoliberal Mother India.