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Nadkarni, Asha.

Eugenic feminism reproductive nationalism in the United States and India / [electronic resource] : Asha Nadkarni. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: eugenic feminism and the problem of national development -- Perfecting feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's eugenic utopias -- Regenerating feminism: Sarojini Naidu's eugenic feminist renaissance -- "World menace": national reproduction, public health, and the Mother India debate -- The vanishing peasant mother: reimagining Mother India for the 1950s -- Severed limbs, severed legacies: Indira Gandhi's emergency and the problem of subalternity -- Epilogue: transnational surrogacy and the neoliberal Mother India.

ISBN: 9781452941417 1452941416

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Birth control--United States.
Birth control--India.
Eugenics--United States.
Eugenics--India.
Feminism--United States.
Feminism--India.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1742 / .N32 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 305.420954