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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Explicating complex theories in accessible ways, Asha Nadkarni explores the link between feminism and nationalism through the lens of women’s reproduction.
Eugenic Feminism adds to the debates over continued feminist investments in maternalist nationalism and in population control that negatively effect the women most marginal to the nation." —Monisha Das Gupta, author of
Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Eugenic Feminism and the Problem of National Development1. Perfecting Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eugenic Utopias2. Regenerating Feminism: Sarojini Naidu's Eugenic Feminist Renaissance3. "World Menace": National Reproduction, Public Health, and the Mother India Debate4. The Vanishing Peasant Mother: Reimagining Mother India for the 1950s5. Severed Limbs, Severed Legacies: Indira Gandhi's Emergency and the Problem of SubalternityEpilogue: Transnational Surrogacy and the Neoliberal Mother India
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