women, law, and citizenship in postcolonial India
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4756 - B
- Thesaurus
- recht, rechtspositie, geweld, postkolonialisme, India
- Description
- This study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women's actual needs and lives. Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women's identities and how, reciprocally, women and women's issues affect the state's role and function. She argues that in India law and citizenship define for women not only the scope of political rights but also cultural identity and everyday life. She delineates the postcolonial state in implicit contrast with the 'enlightened', postfeminist neoliberal state in the West.