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Home and harem : nation, gender, empire, and the cultures of travel
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ISBN: 1283062488 9786613062482 0822382008 0822317400 0822317311 Year: 1996 Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press,

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Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal's study of the narratives and discourses of travel reveals the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked yet distinct constructs of nation and gender and explores the impact of this encounter on both English and Indian men and women. Reworking colonial discourse studies to include both sides of the colonial divide, this work is also the first

Transnational America : feminisms, diasporas, neoliberalisms
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ISBN: 9780822335443 Year: 2005 Publisher: Durham London : Duke University Press,

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"Transnational America" is a path-breaking study of the production of middle-class Indian and American citizens in the context of late-twentieth-century neoliberalism. Inderpal Grewal considers how the circulation and travels of South Asian Indians between India and the U.S. during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply framing the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes unilateral political power in the world, Grewal analyzes how the concept of 'America' functions as a nationalist discourse beyond the boundaries of the United States by disseminating an ideal of democratic citizenship through consumer practices. Grewal combines a postcolonial perspective with social and cultural theory to argue that contemporary notions of gender, race, class, and nationality are linked to earlier histories of colonization and, in particular, to the consumer culture that emerged from colonization. Focusing on three novelists who emigrated from India to the United States, she considers how a concept of Americanness becomes linked to cosmopolitanism. Through an analysis of Mattel's sales of Barbie dolls in India, she shows how American products are consumed by middle-class Indian women with financial means created by India's market liberalization. Considering the fate of asylum-seekers, Grewal looks at how a global feminism in which female refugees are figured as human rights victims emerged from a Western subjectivity. In drawing attention to an 'America' created through the global circulation of people, goods, social movements, rights discourses and more, Grewal makes a powerful, nuanced argument that America must be understood - and studied - as a dynamic entity produced and transformed both within and far beyond its territorial boundaries.


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Transnational America : feminisms, diasporas, neoliberalisms
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ISBN: 128302408X 9786613024084 0822386542 Year: 2005 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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A study of South Asian Americans which views both their identity and that of America as constructed transnationally between the U.S. and India.


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Saving the security state : exceptional citizens in twenty-first-century America
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ISBN: 082237255X Year: 2017 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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In Saving the Security State Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism. Marked by the decline of US geopolitical power, endless war, and increasing surveillance, advanced neoliberalism militarizes everyday life while producing the “exceptional citizens”—primarily white Christian men who reinforce the security state as they claim responsibility for protecting the country from racialized others. Under advanced neoliberalism, Grewal shows, others in the United States strive to become exceptional by participating in humanitarian projects that compensate for the security state's inability to provide for the welfare of its citizens. In her analyses of microfinance programs in the global South, security moms, the murders at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim charities, Grewal exposes the fissures and contradictions at the heart of the US neoliberal empire and the centrality of race, gender, and religion to the securitized state.

Scattered hegemonies : postmodernity and transnational feminist practices.
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ISBN: 0816621373 0816621381 9780816621385 Year: 2006 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota press

An introduction to women's studies: gender in a transnational world
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ISBN: 9780072887181 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) McGraw-Hill Higher Education

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Theorizing NGOs : States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism
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ISBN: 0822377195 Year: 2014 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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Theorizing NGOs examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal suggest that we can understand the proliferation of NGOs through a focus on the NGO as a unified form, despite the enormous variation and diversity contained within that form. Theorizing NGOs brings together cutting-edge feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Contributors locate NGOs within local and transnational configurations of power; interrogate the rela

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