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... when one young woman explains why she is loyal to patriarchal culture, why she wants to serve her brothers as they expect to be served: They love her, send her to school, protect her. Must she give this up to be a feminist? Snitow is moved and responds that a feminism that demands breaking with those...

...-era starvation, and so on. The wide range of detailed bodily experiences demonstrated in this chapter constitutes “one thousand bodies of impotence.” Through bodily experience, some historical processes emerge in a new light. For example, one man’s story of having difficulty finding a girlfriend under...

... This chapter builds on guesstimating the toll of the civil war by saying every extended family had lost at least one person—so everyone is minus one. But it also introduces the way some Mayan people have come to count, including feeling welcomed at the luxury Camino Real hotel and accepted...

...One This chapter examines the silence of the Bangladeshi state and civil society on 1947/partition and juxtaposes it with the extensive memorialization and inherent contestations in the national celebrations of 1971/Muktijuddho (the Bangladesh Liberation War). It outlines the historical...