Gender in the Hindu Nation - RSS Women as Ideologues

Author: Paola Bacchetta
Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 144
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188965022

Description

The three insightful essays in this volume offer a detailed account of women who are active in the RSS. It analyses differences in their, and the RSS’ articulation of the place that women occupy in their ideology, in symbolic space, and in a Hindu Rashtra.

Based on carefully researched archival material, secondary sources, including RSS publications and documents, and personal interviews, this is a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich contribution to an analysis of the nation and the RSS.

Contents

HINDU NATINALIST WOMEN AS IDEOLOGUES
The Sangh, the Samiti and their differential concepts of the Hindu Nation

ALL OUR GODDESSES ARE ARMED
Religion, resistance and revenge in the life of militant Hindu nationalist woman

COMMUNAL PROPERTY/SEXUAL PROPERTY
On representations of Muslim women in a Hindu nationalist discourse