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The scandal of the state : women, law, and citizenship in postcolonial India
- Title
- The scandal of the state : women, law, and citizenship in postcolonial India / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan.
- Author
- Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari.
- Publication
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 313 p.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- A John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Next wave
- Uniform Title
- Next wave (Duke University Press)
- John Hope Franklin Center Book (Series)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-299) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: women, citizenship, law, and the Indian state -- The Ameena "case": the female citizen and subject -- Beyond the hysterectomies scandal: women, the institution, family and state -- The prostitution question(s): female agency, sexuality, and work -- Women between community and state: some implications of the uniform civil code debates -- Children of the state? unwanted girls in rural Tamilnadu -- Outlaw women: the politics of Phoolan Devi's surrender.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-9380
- ISBN
- 0822330350 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822330482 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002013284
- OCLC
- 50478407
- Author
- Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari.
- Title
- The scandal of the state : women, law, and citizenship in postcolonial India / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan.
- Imprint
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Series
- Next wave (Duke University Press)A John Hope Franklin Center BookJohn Hope Franklin Center Book (Series)Next wave
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-299) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-9380