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Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on womenâs biological ability to âreproduce the nationâ they are participating in a eugenic projectâsanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United States and India, Nadkarni shows how the exclusionary impulse of eugenics is embedded within the terms of nationalist feminism.
Nadkarni reveals connections between U.S. and Indian nationalist feminisms from the late nineteenth century through the 1970s, demonstrating that both call for feminist citizenship centered on the reproductive body as the origin of the nation. She juxtaposes U.S. and Indian feminists (and antifeminists) in provocative and productive ways: Charlotte Perkins Gilmanâs utopian novels regard eugenic reproduction as a vital form of national production; Sarojini Naiduâs political speeches and poetry posit liberated Indian women as active agents of a nationalist and feminist modernity predating that of the West; and Katherine Mayoâs 1927 Mother India warns white U.S. women that Indian reproduction is a âworld menace.â In addition, Nadkarni traces the refashioning of the icon Mother India, first in Mehboob Khanâs 1957 film Mother India and Kamala Markandayaâs 1954 novel Nectar in a Sieve, and later in Indira Gandhiâs self-fashioning as Mother India during the Emergency from 1975 to 1977.
By uncovering an understudied history of feminist interactivity between the United States and India, Eugenic Feminism brings new depth both to our understanding of the complicated relationship between the two nations and to contemporary feminism.
About: Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on womenâs biological ability to âreproduce the nationâ they are participating in a eugenic projectâsanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others.
About: Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on womenâs biological ability to âreproduce the nationâ they are participating in a eugenic projectâsanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others.
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