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## Srimati Basu P erhaps the most wearying part of talking about gendered histories of South Asia, including, if not especially, in feminist contexts, is the weight of pre-determined images of victimhood and oppression: the abject servant, the nineteenth-century wife, and the hypersexual Orientalist are standard objects of such scrutiny. These three new texts, however, which focus on meanings of agency and (in)action, legal legibility and affect, challenge the easy exotic appeal of such representations of victimhood. They remind us that intimacies and privacies expressed in gender are often means of constituting race and class, regional pride, and colonial governance. Diverse in the times and locations they cover, all three books trace the processes through which these categories are constituted, following questions of historical legacy and emergent modernities. These books deserve serious attention as feminist texts in their contributions to theory and methodology, as well as in demonstrating the variety and complexity of studies of gender in contemporary South Asian Studies. Mytheli Sreenivas's Wives, Widows, Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India, is one of a nu

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Author

Basu, Srimati

Publisher

Project MUSE; Johns Hopkins University Press (ISSN 1527-2036)

Published

2012

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences