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100	1		_aLoomba, Ania
245	1	0	_aRevolutionary desires : _bwomen, communism, and feminism in India _cby Ania Loomba
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c©2019
300			_aix, 321 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index
505	0		_t1. The romance of revolution
505	0		_t2. Love in the time of revolution
505	0		_t3. Commune-ism
505	0		_t4. The political is personal
505	0		_t5. The dance of hunger
505	0		_t6. The family romance
505	0		_t7. Becoming "Indian"
520			_a"Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. This close study demonstrates how India's revolutionary women shaped a new female - and in some cases feminist - political subject in the twentieth century, in collaboration and contestation with Indian nationalist, liberal-feminist, and European left-wing models of womenhood. Through a wide range of writings by, and about, revolutionary and communist women, including memoirs, autobiographies, novels, party documents, and interviews, Ania Loomba traces the experiences of these women, showing how they were constrained by, but also how they questioned, the gendered norms of Indian political culture. A collection of carefully restored photographs is dispersed throughout the book, helping to evoke the texture of these women's political experiences, both public and private. Revolutionary Desires is an original and important intervention into a neglected area of leftist and feminist politics in India by a major voice in feminist studies" -- From the publisher.
650		0	_aFeminism _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWomen communists _zIndia _vBiography.
650		0	_aCommunism _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
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