To be Pure or not to Be
Gandhi, Women, and the Partition of India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3165307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debali Mookerjea-Leonard (0009-0007-1111-8687, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-54 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.2009.39 |
| OpenAlex | W2074693713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article examines Gandhi's writings, speeches, and correspondence, produced mainly from 1946 to the end of his life, on the subject of violence against women during the riots surrounding the Partition of the Indian subcontinent. Gandhi, the article demonstrates, persistently fails to address the gender pathology revealed at the heart of South Asian society by these violations, a pathology to which men were subject, but of which women were the victims. The article compiles a comprehensive overview of Gandhi's shifting positions during this brief, though cataclysmic, period, in the belief that in so doing a certain core aspect of mainstream Indian nationalism's patriarchal underpinnings can be laid bare to critique
Aesthetics · Ethnology · Feminism · Indian subcontinent · Mainstream · Nationalism · Partition (number theory) · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · South asia · Subject (documents) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |