Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as IdeologuesThe 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 woman 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. |
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| Title | Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologues Volume 1 of Feminist fine print |
| Author | Paola Bacchetta |
| Publisher | Women Unlimited, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 8188965022, 9788188965021 |
| Length | 144 pages |
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