The Scandal of the State
Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
1st Edition
Published on 9. April 2003
336 pages
978-0-8223-8483-0 (ISBN)
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A major postcolonial feminist theorist explores the gendered nature of citizenship and the state.
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Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Reader in English and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture, and Postcolonialism and editor of Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India.
Content
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Introduction: Women, Citizenship, Law, and the Indian State 1
I. Women in Custody
2. The Ameena "Case": The Female Citizen and Subject 41
3. Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, Family, and State 72
II. Women in Law
4. The Prostitution Question(s): Female Agency, Sexuality, and Work 117
5. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates 147
III. Killing Women
6. Children of the State?: Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamilnadu 177
7. Outlaw Woman: The Politics of Phoolan Devi's Surrender, 1983 212
Notes 237
References 279
Index 301
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Introduction: Women, Citizenship, Law, and the Indian State 1
I. Women in Custody
2. The Ameena "Case": The Female Citizen and Subject 41
3. Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, Family, and State 72
II. Women in Law
4. The Prostitution Question(s): Female Agency, Sexuality, and Work 117
5. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates 147
III. Killing Women
6. Children of the State?: Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamilnadu 177
7. Outlaw Woman: The Politics of Phoolan Devi's Surrender, 1983 212
Notes 237
References 279
Index 301
