Shefali Chandra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3663044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shefali Chandra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shefali |
| FAMILY NAME | Chandra |
| SIGNATURE | CHANDRA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonising the Orgasm
The three-cornered nature of decolonisation—the decline of European power, the culmination of US hegemony, and the immediate appropriation of the new nation by a post-colonial elite—was foundational to G.S. Ghurye’s detailed riposte to Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. I show how the ‘Father of Indian Sociology’ marshalled statistics, sexology and Sanskrit, along with a static notion of heterosexuality, to caricature whiteness and the…
Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932, Tim Allender
India Will Change You Forever
This article examines new aspects of the relationship between the United States and India since September 11, 2001. A number of widely circulating memoirs composed by American women over the past decade indicate a new alliance between American and Indian culture. I read these texts to probe the draw to India, which as I show, is propelled through the needs of whiteness. The silent yet necessary triangulation with Islam, the possibility of learnin…
The world's largest dynasty
Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy
Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy: Race, Caste, Sexuality, and the Agenda of Transnational Studies ShefaliChandra On August 24 of 1884, a Marathi-language article that excavated in voracious detail the sexual practices of white women in India, erupted upon the political scene in Poona City. Published in the conservative Marathi-language weekly, Poona Vaibhav (Glory of Poona1), and simply entitled "Strishikshan," or women's education, …
Mimicry, Masculinity, and the Mystique of Indian English
This article describes the manner in which the English language took root in modern India. It does so by using gender as the unit of analysis. Building a feminist analysis on the symbolic role of culture, the author traces the history of English education in Bombay and Poona. The rise of English as the language of power in the nineteenth century was actively enabled-and further legitimated-by the patriarchal interests of Indian class and caste fo…
The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920 (review)
Gendering English
Early Feminists of Colonial India
Reviewed by: Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Shefali Chandra Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. By Bharati Ray. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Discussing the lives and political agendas of two prominent Bengali women, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872-1945) and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932), this study by the historian Bharati …
Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy
Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy: Race, Caste, Sexuality, and the Agenda of Transnational Studies ShefaliChandra On August 24 of 1884, a Marathi-language article that excavated in voracious detail the sexual practices of white women in India, erupted upon the political scene in Poona City. Published in the conservative Marathi-language weekly, Poona Vaibhav (Glory of Poona1), and simply entitled "Strishikshan," or women's education, …
India Will Change You Forever
This article examines new aspects of the relationship between the United States and India since September 11, 2001. A number of widely circulating memoirs composed by American women over the past decade indicate a new alliance between American and Indian culture. I read these texts to probe the draw to India, which as I show, is propelled through the needs of whiteness. The silent yet necessary triangulation with Islam, the possibility of learnin…
Mimicry, Masculinity, and the Mystique of Indian English
This article describes the manner in which the English language took root in modern India. It does so by using gender as the unit of analysis. Building a feminist analysis on the symbolic role of culture, the author traces the history of English education in Bombay and Poona. The rise of English as the language of power in the nineteenth century was actively enabled-and further legitimated-by the patriarchal interests of Indian class and caste fo…
Gendering English
Early Feminists of Colonial India
Reviewed by: Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Shefali Chandra Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. By Bharati Ray. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Discussing the lives and political agendas of two prominent Bengali women, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872-1945) and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932), this study by the historian Bharati …
Gendering English
The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920 (review)
Mimicry, Masculinity, and the Mystique of Indian English
This article describes the manner in which the English language took root in modern India. It does so by using gender as the unit of analysis. Building a feminist analysis on the symbolic role of culture, the author traces the history of English education in Bombay and Poona. The rise of English as the language of power in the nineteenth century was actively enabled-and further legitimated-by the patriarchal interests of Indian class and caste fo…
Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy
Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy: Race, Caste, Sexuality, and the Agenda of Transnational Studies ShefaliChandra On August 24 of 1884, a Marathi-language article that excavated in voracious detail the sexual practices of white women in India, erupted upon the political scene in Poona City. Published in the conservative Marathi-language weekly, Poona Vaibhav (Glory of Poona1), and simply entitled "Strishikshan," or women's education, …
The world's largest dynasty
India Will Change You Forever
This article examines new aspects of the relationship between the United States and India since September 11, 2001. A number of widely circulating memoirs composed by American women over the past decade indicate a new alliance between American and Indian culture. I read these texts to probe the draw to India, which as I show, is propelled through the needs of whiteness. The silent yet necessary triangulation with Islam, the possibility of learnin…
Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932, Tim Allender
Decolonising the Orgasm
The three-cornered nature of decolonisation—the decline of European power, the culmination of US hegemony, and the immediate appropriation of the new nation by a post-colonial elite—was foundational to G.S. Ghurye’s detailed riposte to Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. I show how the ‘Father of Indian Sociology’ marshalled statistics, sexology and Sanskrit, along with a static notion of heterosexuality, to caricature whiteness and the…
Gender Studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Caste (4 works) · History (4 works)