{"product_id":"inventing-subjects-himani-bannerji-9781843310730","title":"Inventing Subjects: Studies in Hegemoney, Patriarchy and Colonialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays written from a Marxist-Feminist perspective, 'Inventing Subjects' is a significant contribution to the field of historical sociology. The essays speak of the different ways in which social subjects and their agencies have been constructed and represented in the context of the development of colonial hegemony and socio-cultural formations in India. Four of the essays focus on constructive proposals for social subjectivities and agencies of Bengali middle-class women by both the indigenous and the colonial elite. The othrt two essays consider the invention or construction of 'India' as an ideological category for ruling, which seeks to impose on it a colonially ascribed identity. The essays capture the fluidity and complexity of subject construction, and read moral regulations and culture in terms of a hegemonic process. They range from middle-class Bengali women's attempts at self-fashioning to the colonial ideological reflexes within which their projects are articulated. They disclose and query the tensions inherent in the processes of indigenous socio-cultural constructions and identity formations, as well as the reductionism involved in the creation of colonial 'others'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Himani Bannerji\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1843310732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843310730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.50w x 0.55d","brand":"Himani Bannerji","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938917449983,"sku":"9781843310730","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3185db3d-79b1-438c-9d93-720f64f194d4.jpg?v=1681438439","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-subjects-himani-bannerji-9781843310730","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}