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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2014]
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| 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.


