Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific

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PREETI Maternity and the story of enlightenment in the colonies: Tamil coastal women, south India by Kalpana Ram is article based on feminist research. RAM is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow, attached to Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published on gender, caste and class in contemporary India, as well as more general theoretical papers on feminism and modernity. Her major publication is Mukkuvar Women: Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community (1991). Her current research is on reproductive embodiment and gender in south India, and on the transformations of Indian dance and aesthetics in nationalism both within India and in the overseas Indian diaspora. Dr Ram was previously a Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council, and a Research Fellow at the Gender Relations Centre (Australian National University). Kalpana has published several papers on dance, and is currently working on a book concerned with female embodiment in rural Tamil Nadu which aims to address the ways in which reproductive disorders are experienced by women in ways that are very different from the rationalist intellectual discourses in India. Dr Ram’s main publications include 'Mukkuvar Women: Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Village' (Allen & Unwin, 1991; republished by Kali for Women as a special Indian edition); 'Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific' (co-edited with Margaret Jolly, Cambridge University Press, 1998); 'Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific' (co-edited with Margaret Jolly, Routledge, 2001). Kalpana uses phenomenology and its critique of rationalism in the context of contemporary postcolonial experiences in two different

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