Visible Histories, Disappearing Women

Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal

Bibliographic Data

ID7098877
AuthorsMahua Sarkar (corresponding author)
Year2008
Pages352
Publication date2008-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueVisible Histories, Disappearing Women (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822389033
OpenAlexW4249892739
Open LibraryOL29605516M
ISBN9780822389033
LanguageEN
Citations received17

Difference This book studies the production of Muslim women as invisible and oppressed/backward in the written history of late colonial Bengal.Unlike in projects of recuperation, the intent here is not to correct the problem of invisibility/silence of Muslim women by recovering them as visible/vocal subjects within the familiar terms of conventional history-a history that denied them such presence in the first place.Instead, my focus is on understanding the discursive and material contexts that have historically produced Muslim women as victimized, invisible, and/or mute.What I seek to make visible in this project, in other words, is not so much Muslim women but rather the contexts of their specific (dis)appearances in writing and the ways in which they have been marginalized and/or made to (dis)appear within both the conventional (colonial and nationalist) and critical historiography of colonial Bengal

Aesthetics · Art · BENGAL · Colonialism · Historiography · Invisibility · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · 19th century · Administration · asia · Colonies · Great britain · India · Muslim women · Social conditions · West Bengal · Women · Women in Islam

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