Women: a Cultural Review - Vol 8 : Issue 3: Independent India

This volume examines the fundamental importance of sexual difference in cultural formations.

The text analyzes the performing and visual arts, the media, literature, history, education, law, philosophy and psychoanalysis. This special issue entitled "Independent India" includes the following articles: "Married to Mahatma: The Life and Predicament of Kasturba Gandhi", by Emma Tarlo; "Saraswati in Blue Jeans: Clothing and the New Woman", by Ania Loomba; "The Poetics and the Politics of the Blind Spot: Mahasweta Devi against Dehumanization", by kavita Panjabi; "Thoroughly Modern Misses: Role Models and Old Models on Indian Television", by Shaileja Bajpai; "'Until Women are Free..': Women, Caste and Indian Nationalism", by Mrinalini Sinha; "Listening to the Widows' Words: Changing Patterns of Hindu Widowhood", by Martha Chen; and "Sex, Lies and the Genderscape: The Politics of Relationships in the Cinema of Arpana Sen", by Brinda Bose.