Of the Nation Born: The Bangladesh Papers

The first volume to come out of a South Asia wide research project entitled Sexual Violence and Impunity (supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada), this book focuses on Bangladesh and showcases some of the best writings on the subject.
Contributors include new and established scholars who look at areas as wide-ranging as the law and its histories, nationalism, memory and sexuality, the status of minorities, religion and its directives, universities as sites of gender-contestation and more.
A comprehensive overview of the situation in Bangladesh since the 1971 war of liberation, written by acclaimed scholar Meghna Guhathakurta provides an entry point to help the reader understand the complex realities of the ways in which impunity for sexual violence has come to acquire so much resilience in Bangladesh in particular, and South Asia in general.

About the author

Hameeda Hossain is a Bangladeshi human rights activist and academic. She is a founding member of Ain o Salish Kendra, a legal aid and human rights organization, and cofounder of the English-language magazine Forum. Amena Mohsin teaches in the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has written extensively on rights issues, state, democracy, civil-military relations, and human security.

Product details

• Authors: Meghna Guhathakurta
• Assisted by: Hameeda Hossain (Editor), Amena Mohsin (Editor)
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2016
• EAN: 9789384757793
• ISBN: 978-93-84757-79-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 224 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Zubaan Sexual Violence and Imp
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories