Borders, histories, existences : gender and beyond / Paula Banerjee.

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Banerjee, Paula

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xlii, 253 pages) : mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9788132104841
8132104846
9788132102267
8132102266

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Borders, histories, existences.DDC classification:

305.48/96910954 22

LOC classification:

HQ1735 .B36 2010eb

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Contents:

Aliens in the colonial world -- Borders as unsettled markers : the Sino-Indian border -- The line of control : Kashmir -- Circles of insecurity : the border people -- Negotiating differences : the Indian State and its women in the borderlands -- Mobile diseases and the border -- Border laws and conflicts in North-east India.

Summary: This is an insightful historical work on borders and bordered existences, with special emphasis on the gender dimensions of these existences. The author argues that the experiences of women living on borders and in borderlands are definitive of those of the vulnerable communities who bear the brunt of the complex border and security issues. The conditions of migrant women, women peace campaigners, and victims of human trafficking and mobile diseases are presented as markers of bordered existences. Their history is one of negotiations with structures of control, leading to insecurity, subversio.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is an insightful historical work on borders and bordered existences, with special emphasis on the gender dimensions of these existences. The author argues that the experiences of women living on borders and in borderlands are definitive of those of the vulnerable communities who bear the brunt of the complex border and security issues. The conditions of migrant women, women peace campaigners, and victims of human trafficking and mobile diseases are presented as markers of bordered existences. Their history is one of negotiations with structures of control, leading to insecurity, subversio.

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