Eugenic feminism : reproductive nationalism in the United States and India /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nadkarni, Asha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Feminism > India.
Feminism > United States.
Eugenics > India.
Eugenics > United States.
Birth control > India.
Birth control > United States.
Féminisme > Inde.
Féminisme > États-Unis.
Eugénisme > Inde.
Eugénisme > États-Unis.
Régulation des naissances > Inde.
Régulation des naissances > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
Birth control.
Eugenics.
Feminism.
India.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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