Annie Devenish

Debating Women's Citizenship in India, 1930-1960 (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Debating Women's Citizenship, 1930-1960 is about the agency of Indian feminists and nationalists whose careers straddle the transition of colonial India to an independent India. It addresses some of the critical aspects of the encounter, engagement and dialogue between the Indian state and its women citizens, in particular, how this generation conceptualised the relationship between citizenship, equality and gender justice, and the various spheres in which the meaning and application of this citizenship was both broadened and narrowed, renegotiated and pursued. The book focuses on a cohort of nationalists and feminists who were leading members of the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) and the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).

Drawing on the richness and depth of life histories through autobiography and oral interviews, together with archival research, this book excavates the mental products of these women's lives, their ideas, their writings and their discourse, to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the feminist political personas of this generation, and how these personas negotiated the political and social terrains of their time. The book attempts to produce a new picture of this era, one in which there was far more activity and engagement with the state and with civil society on the part of this generation than previously acknowledged.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789389812343
• Artikelnr.: 62934178

Autorenporträt

Dr Annie Devenish (Researcher, African Ombudsman Research Centre (AORC) School of Law, University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa) is a South African historian working on the history of feminist politics and organisation in India and South Africa. She is particularly interested in the intersections between gender, development and democracy in the Global South, and identity politics in the context of political transition.

A graduate in history from the University Natal (2001), Devenish finished her PhD from the University of Oxford (2014) under the supervision of Dr Faisal Devji. Her research focused on the interaction between gender, citizenship and identity in independent India.

Prior to commencing her PhD, Dr Devenish spent two years teaching undergraduate history at the University of Cape Town and subsequently taught history for a short while at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her publications, both forthcoming and present, focus on gender, the informal economy, traditional health practitioners in Southern Africa, and feminism and development in India and South Africa.

Dr Devenish currently works as a researcher at the African Ombudsman Research Centre within the School of Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Emergence of the Indian Woman as a Political Citizen 2.
Constitution Writing and the Sexless Citizen 3. Citizenship through Service
4. The Reluctant Citizen: India's 'Doubtful and Resisting' Women 5.
Citizenship through Struggle: The National Federation of Indian Women 6.
The Embodied Citizen: Family Planning in Independent India 7. The Indian
Woman as a Global Citizen: Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Hansa Mehta and the United
Nations Conclusion