Social reform, sexuality, and the state

Abstract

Introduction - Patricia Uberoi Problematising Social Reform, Engaging Sexuality, Interrogating the State PART ONE: THE REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION OF SEXUALITY Wifehood, Widowhood and Adultery - Uma Chakravarti Female Sexuality, Surveillance and the State in 18th Century Maharashtra The Hegemonic Appropriation of Sexuality - Sharmila Rege The Case of the /f003Lavani/f001 Performers of Maharashtra Redefining Gender Relationships - Veena Poonacha The Imprint of the Colonial State on the Coorg//Kodava Norms of Marriage and Sexuality Contesting Claims and Counter-Claims - Prem Chowdhry Questions of the Inheritance and Sexuality of Widows in a Colonial State 'You Cannot Live in Society - and Ignore It' - Ravi S Vasudevan Nationhood and Female Modernity in /f003Andaz The Celibate Wrestler - Joseph S Alter Sexual Chaos, Embodied Balance and Competitive Politics in North India PART TWO: THE REFORM AND SELF-REFORM OF SOCIETY Reflections on Kulin Polygamy - Malavika Karlekar Nistrarini Debi's /f003Sekeley katha Prohibited Marriage - Janaki Nair State Protection and the Child Wife Modernising the Motherhood Archetype - Judy Whitehead Public Health Models and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 Citizens, Workers and Emblems of Culture - Maitrayee Chaudhuri An Analysis of the First Plan Document on Women PART THREE: GENDER, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE STATE Gendered Negotiations - M S S Pandian Hunting and Colonialism in the Late 19th Century Nilgiris Gender Reform and Competing State Controls over Women - Meera Kosambi The Rakhmabai Case (1884-1888) Rationalism, Cultural Nationalism and the Reform of Body Politics - Kalpana Ram Minority Intellectuals of the Tamil Catholic Community When Is a Marriage Not a Marriage? Sex, Sacrament and Contract in Hindu Marriage - Patricia Uberoi Insanity, Gender and the Law - Amita Dhanda The Impossibility of 'Justice' - Nivedita Menon Female Foeticide and Feminist Discourse on Abortion

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