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Eugenic feminism : reproductive nationalism in the United States and India / Asha Nadkarni

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Nadkarni, Asha
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Physical Description
264 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents
Introduction: eugenic feminism and the problem of national development -- Perfecting feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's eugenic utopias -- Regenerating feminism: Sarojini Naidu's eugenic feminist renaissance -- "World menace": national reproduction, public health, and the Mother India debate -- The vanishing peasant mother: reimagining Mother India for the 1950s -- Severed limbs, severed legacies: Indira Gandhi's emergency and the problem of subalternity -- Epilogue: transnational surrogacy and the neoliberal Mother India.
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ISBN
9780816689903 (hc : alk. paper)
0816689903 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816689934 (pb : alk. paper)
0816689938 (pb : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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