Women Speak Nation: Gender, Culture, and Politics

Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political, economic, cultural, and social formations and normative gendered relations to try and understand the cross-currents in contemporary feminist theorizing and politics.

The chapters question the gendered depictions of the nation as Hindu, upper caste, middle class, heterosexual, able...