Real and Imagined Women - Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism

An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the `third world woman' as victim.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 THE SUBJECT OF SATI; Chapter 2 REPRESENTING SATI; Chapter 3 LIFE AFTER RAPE; Chapter 4 THE NAME OF THE HUSBAND; Chapter 5 GENDER, LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION; Chapter 6 REAL AND IMAGINED WOMEN; INDEX;

About the author

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan lectures in English at the University of Delhi. She has edited a collection of essays entitled The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India and her work on feminist theory and politics has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and The Yale Journal of Criticism.

Summary

An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the `third world woman' as victim.

Product details

• Authors: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.1993
• EAN: 9780415085038
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08503-8
• No. of pages: 164
• Weight: 460 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Developing Countries, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights, Global South / Developing countries