Pub Date : 2022-11-26DOI: 10.1177/09715215221133542
Utathya Chattopadhyaya
This essay explores what might result if histories of empire and colonialism took the material relationships of human and plant bodies as a fundamental framework. Gender both structured, and was reproduced through, various relationships shaped by collisions between British imperialism and the natural and social worlds of colonial India. Taking up the mutually constitutive formation of the sexuality of a plant body and the body of the sex worker in colonial India, this essay attempts to analyse gender more expansively beyond human bodies marked by colonial rule. It examines how labour, performed as sex work as well as floral sex work, formed an axis around which gendered relationships could cohere over time. It argues that placing the plant, its sexuality and its scaffolding botanical frameworks on the one hand, and anxieties of colonial patriarchal arrangements on the other, can further complicate and deepen a historical analysis of colonialism in South Asia.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-20DOI: 10.1177/09715215221133661
Sharada Nayak
Exclusion of widows and discrimination. A village woman, unlettered and widowed, is employed to take care of three little girls. She argues that daughters and sons should have equity; that a daughter has a right to education as much as a son.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/09715215221133526
A. Burton
This essay introduces the themes of the special issue, with particular attention to the work of gender in restructuring social, economic and political histories.
本文介绍了特刊的主题，特别关注社会、经济和政治史结构调整中的性别工作。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/09715215221111521
R. Berger
The epilogue brings the discussion full circle, whereby the past, present and future are recognised as intricately entwined and queering linear progressive temporalities. The past is better understood through debates and concerns of the present, whereas the contemporary constructivist logics emerge when traced backwards in history; future imaginings likewise are wedged within the dynamics of political visions of the past and the present. Through eclectic theoretical borrowing, Pande weaves a feminist historical narrative rich in analysis and commentary, to produce a work that is intellectually exhilarating. I could conclude on this positive note. However, advancing Pande’s project is guided by queer feminist practice of interrogating assumptions, partialities and easy resolutions, I want to make space for ethical concerns tied to citational politics in research, writing and teaching. What does it mean for feminist scholarship committed to an expansive rethinking of childhood from the global South, to lean significantly upon Foucault’s myopic Eurocentric intellectual formulations? How does one uphold intellectual fidelity especially given the recent revelations of Foucault’s paedophilic interactions with boys in Tunisia? While these revelations could not have been known when the book was completed, how about a related concern articulated by Dalit feminists under #MeToo calling out bullying and sexual misconduct by leading South Asian postcolonial male scholars, some of whom are prominently cited in the book? Even as this is posed as a question, it is raised here more as a way of acknowledging compelling ethical and moral quandaries within academia that feminist activism has brought to our collective attention.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/09715215221111129
A. Burton
Introduction to the Book Forum on Ishita Pande’s Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937
石田潘德的《性、法律与年龄政治论坛：1891-1937年印度童婚》一书简介
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