ISBN:
0231549644
,
9780231549646
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Gender and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Saha, Poulomi Empire of touch
DDC:
305.420954/14
Keywords:
Women in development History
;
Women Political activity
;
History
;
Women textile workers History
;
Nation-building
;
Nation-building ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01737474
;
Politics and government ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01919741
;
Women in development ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01177865
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Women ; Political activity ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01734136
;
Women textile workers ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01178623
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; bisacsh
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; bisacsh
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HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia ; bisacsh
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India ; Bengal ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01213579
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History ; fast ; (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Politics and government
;
Women in development
;
Women ; Political activity
;
Women textile workers
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Nation-building
;
HISTORY ; Asia ; India & South Asia
;
History
;
Bengal (India) History
;
Bengal (India) Politics and government
;
India ; Bengal
;
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Abstract:
In today's world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industry - and the labor organizing pushing back - draws on a long history of gendered labor division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedent of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of women's labor to anticolonial protest and postcolonial state-building, historiography has struggled with what appears to be its absence from the archive. Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women's political labor in East Bengal over more than a century, one that suggests new ways to think about textiles and the gendered labors of their making. An Empire of Touch argues that women have articulated--in writing, in political action, in stitching--their own desires in their own terms. They produce narratives beyond women's empowerment and independence as global and national projects; they refuse critical pronouncements of their own subjugation. Saha follows the historical traces of how women have claimed their own labor, contending that their political commitments are captured in the material objects of their manufacture. Her analysis of the production of historical memory through and by the bodies of women spans British colonialism and American empire, anticolonial nationalism to neoliberal globalization, depicting East Bengal between development economics and postcolonial studies. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire
Abstract:
Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Reading the Body Politic; 1. Virgin Suicides; Part II: The Fetish of Nationalism; 2. The Fetish Touch; 3. Oceanic Feelings; Part III: International Basket Case; 4. Archive Asylum; 5. Machine Made; Epilogue; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/saha19208
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