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Author:
Nadkarni, Asha, author.
Title:
Eugenic feminism : reproductive nationalism in the United States and India / Asha Nadkarni.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
264 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Feminism--India.
Feminism--United States.
Eugenics--India.
Eugenics--United States.
Birth control--India.
Birth control--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
0816689938 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816689934 (pb : alk. paper)
0816689903 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816689903 (hc : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)854541675
LCCN:
2013028375
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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