Himani Bannerji
Biographical Note
Readership
Academic libraries, public libraries, post-graduate students and undergraduate students in sociology, social history, cultural studies, critical race theory, women’s and anti-oppression studies, marxist studies, postcolonial studies, political activists.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Overview of Previously Published Articles
Part 1 Methods
Section 1 Ideology and the Social
1 Building from Marx: Reflections on ‘Race’, Gender and Class
2 Marxism and Antiracism in Theory and Practice
3 Ideology
4 But Who Speaks for Us? Experience and Agency in Conventional Feminist Paradigms
5 Politics and the Writing of History
6 Ideology, Anti-colonialism and Marxism
Section 2 Ideology and History
7 Tradition of Sociology and Sociology of Tradition: The Terms of Our Knowledge and the Knowledge Produced
8 Beyond the Ruling Category to What Actually Happens: Notes on James Mill’s Historiography in The History of British India
9 Pygmalion Nation: Critique of Subaltern Studies’ Resolution of the Women Question
Part 2 The Making of a Subject: Gender, ‘Race’ and Class
10 Introducing Racism: Notes towards an Antiracist Feminism
11 In the Matter of X: Building ‘Race’ into Sexual Harassment
12 Attired in Virtue: Discourse on Shame [Lajja] and Clothing of the Gentlewoman [Bhadramahila] in Colonial Bengal
13 Fashioning a Self: Educational Proposals for and by Women in Popular Magazines in Colonial Bengal
14 Age of Consent and Hegemonic Social Reform
Part 3 Nation, Multiculturalism, Identity and Community
15 The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and ‘Women of Colour’
16 On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and the State of ‘Canada’
17 A Question of Silence: Reflections on Violence against Women in Communities of Colour
18 The Passion of Naming: Identity, Difference and Politics of Class
19 Truant in Time
Part 4 Nationalism, Gender and Politics
20 Making India Hindu and Male: Cultural Nationalism and the Emergence of the Ethnic Citizen in Contemporary India
21 Writing ‘India’, Doing ‘Ideology’: William Jones’ Construction of India as an Ideological Category
22 Demography and Democracy: Reflections on Violence against Women in Genocide or Ethnic Cleansing
23 Cultural Nationalism and Woman as the Subject of the Nation
24 Patriarchy in the Era of Neoliberalism: The Case of India
Part 5 Class, Culture and Representation
25 The Mirror of Class: Class Subjectivity and Politics in Nineteenth Century Bengal
26 Language and Liberation: A Study of Political Theatre in West Bengal
27 Nation and Class in Communist Aesthetics and the Theatre of Utpal Dutt
Part 6 Decolonisation
28 Nostalgia for the Future: The Poetry of Ernesto Cardinal
29 A Transformational Pedagogy: Reflections on Rabindranath’s Project of Decolonisation
30 Beyond the Binaries: Notes on Karl Marx’s and Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas on Human Capacities and Alienation
31 Himani Bannerji in Conversation with Somdatta Mandal
Bibliography
Index