Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies by Kalpana Kannabiran Padmini Swaminathan

Author:Kalpana Kannabiran, Padmini Swaminathan [Kalpana Kannabiran, Padmini Swaminathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138633797
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1This chapter was published in the Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Women’s Studies, vol. 51, no. 18, 30 April 2016, pp. 64–71. We are grateful to the editor, EPW, for permission to republish this chapter in this volume.

2Foucault talks about literature as a language of transgression, which is also a simulacrum of the book, directing aggression against the ‘feminine essence of the book’ – ‘Literature is transgression, literature is virility of the language compared to the femininity of the book…. What can literature be, precisely, other than the frail, posthumous existence of language?’ – in lectures on ‘Literature and Language’ at Brussels in December 1964 (Foucault 2015: 64–65).

3The University Grants Commission in January 2013 instructed Indian science and technology institutes to offer humanities courses to its students in order to ‘stop radicalization of youth’ of the country, defusing any subversive power of the humanities by relegating it to a moral ‘soul’-training exercise (reported extensively in Firstpost, dated 1 March 2013, and other newspapers and websites). While acknowledging that in contemporary political speech, ‘radicalization’ has come to mean only the nurturing of potential terrorists rather than the uncompromising pursuit of social and economic reforms, one can yet deconstruct this myth of morality around the humanities, challenging the propositions that they are either containable by regulation or useful for containing the boldness of youth.

4Kumkum Sangari in her study of the relation between sex selection and commercial surrogacy in India uses solid and liquid as signifiers:

It can also sketch the volatile relations between the family, market and state, and describe the cords that bind migrant with embedded labour, the national with the transnational, the social with the postsocial body. The solid may not always be old, the old may be becoming liquid – patriarchal family forms can be liquescent, while the state and market can act as either solvents or hardeners of patriarchal practices.

(2015: 3)

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