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Book Title
Borders and Boundaries
Publication Name
Borders and Boundaries
Title
Borders and Boundaries
Subtitle
How Women Experienced the Partition of India
Author
Ritu Menon
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0813525527
EAN
9780813525525
ISBN
9780813525525
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Genre
Social Science
Topic
Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Release Date
01/05/1998
Release Year
1998
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.7in
Item Length
8.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant today. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. More than eight million people migrated and one million died in the process. The forced migration, violence between Hindus and Muslims, and mass widowhood were unprecedented and well-documented. What was less obvious but equally real was that millions of people had to realign their identities, uncertain about who they thought they were. The rending of the social and emotional fabric that took place in 1947 is still far from mended. While there are plenty of official accounts of Partition, there are few social histories and no feminist histories. Borders and Boundaries changes that, providing first-hand accounts and memoirs, juxtaposed alongside official government accounts. The authors make women not only visible but central. They explore what country, nation, and religious identity meant for women, and they address the question of the nation-state and the gendering of citizenship. In the largest ever peace-time mass migration of people, violence against women became the norm. Thousands of women committed suicide or were done to death by their own kinsmen. Nearly 100,000 women were "abducted" during the migration. A young woman might have been separated from her family when a convoy was ambushed, abducted by people of another religion, forced to convert, and forced into marriage or cohabitation. After bearing a child, she would be offered the opportunity to return only if she left her child behind and if she could face shame in her natal community. These stories do not paint their subjects as victims. Theirs are the stories of battles over gender, the body, sexuality, and nationalism-stories of women fighting for identity.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813525527
ISBN-13
9780813525525
eBay Product ID (ePID)
444061

Product Key Features

Author
Ritu Menon
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ds480
Publication Name
Borders and Boundaries : How Women Experienced the Partition of India
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Preface Speaking for Themselves: Partition's History, Women's History Honourably Dead: Permissible Violence Against Women Borders and Bodies: Recovering Women in the Interest of the Nation A Community of Widows: Missing Citizens Picking up the Pieces: Women Rehabilitate Women Learning to Survive: Two Lives, Two Destinies Belonging: Women and Their Nations Appendix I Appendix II Index
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
98-017638
Dewey Decimal
954.04
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21

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