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The Habit of Ex-Nomination: Nation, Woman, and The Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie

Anannya Bhattacharjee
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 19–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-19
Published: 01 January 1992
...,” Economic and Political Weekly 22 ( 47 ): 2011 -2015. Segal , Uma A. 1991 “Cultural Variables in Asian Indian Families,” Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services 72 ( 4 ): 233 -241. TWHAHT Of €X-NOMlNATlOIY : NATION, WOMAN, AND TttE: lNI4AN IMMlGRANT...
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Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie: An Alternative Formulation

Caitrin Lynch
Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 425–437.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-425
Published: 01 May 1994
...Caitrin Lynch Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Literature Cited Bhattacharjee , Anannya . 1992. “The Habit of Ex-nomination: Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie.” Public Culture 5 ( 1 ): 19 -44. Levinsohn , Florence Hamlish . 1991...
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Figure 3. “An Old Woman Is Killed: She Sold Fruit at a School,” Nuestro diario (Our Daily), May 21, 2010

“An Old Woman Is Killed: She Sold Fruit at a School,” Nuestro diario ( Ou...

in Extorted Life: Protection Rackets in Guatemala City > Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2016
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FIGURE 3 Maskless woman sits on the floor inside a Costco.

Maskless woman sits on the floor inside a Costco.

in Face Mask Face-Offs: Culture and Conflict in the COVID-19 Pandemic > Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2021
figure 3 Maskless woman sits on the floor inside a Costco. More
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FIGURE 1. An Uyghur woman stares into a police officer's camera while stopped at a checkpoint in Urumchi in 2017. To protect her identity, the woman's name and ID number has been obscured in this police file photo. Courtesy of Yael Grauer.

An Uyghur woman stares into a police officer's camera while stopped at a ch...

in The Social Life of Terror Capitalism Technologies in Northwest China > Public Culture
Published: 01 May 2022
figure 1. An Uyghur woman stares into a police officer's camera while stopped at a checkpoint in Urumchi in 2017. To protect her identity, the woman's name and ID number has been obscured in this police file photo. Courtesy of Yael Grauer. More
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FIGURE 11B A Burmese woman represents the way Burmese women generally have been abused by the Myanmar military and asks the United Nations for help, April 2021.

A Burmese woman represents the way Burmese women generally have been abused...

in Bullets and Boomerangs: Proleptic Uses of Failure in Myanmar's Anti-coup Uprising > Public Culture
Published: 01 January 2023
FIGURE 11B A Burmese woman represents the way Burmese women generally have been abused by the Myanmar military and asks the United Nations for help, April 2021. More
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Figure 16 Group 57/Morteza Momayez, “Woman in step with the revolution,” 1978–79. Courtesy of Nicky Nodjoumi.

Group 57/Morteza Momayez, “Woman in step with the revolution,” 1978–79. Cou...

in Legacies of Protest Art in Iran: The Revolutionary Art Workshop of 1979 > Public Culture
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 16 Group 57/Morteza Momayez, “Woman in step with the revolution,” 1978–79. Courtesy of Nicky Nodjoumi. More
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On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman's Claim to Locality

Fatu Kande Senghor
Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 205–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-205
Published: 01 January 2000
... and has worked with battered sub-Saharan immigrant women in Paris. On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman’s Claim to Locality Fatu Kande Senghor Fatu Kande Senghor is a writer and photographer who is currently Program Specialist for the Cultural Program at the Goree...
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Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's ‘Disrobing’

Purnima Mankekar
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 469–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-469
Published: 01 September 1993
... Magazine , June 1990, p. 30 -43. Thomas , Rosie . 1985 . “Indian Cinema: Pleasures and Popularity.” Screen 26 ( 3–4 ): 123 -35. Visweswaran , Kamala . 1990 . “Family Subjects: An Ethnography of the “Woman Question’ in Indian Nationalism.” Ph.D. diss. Department of Anthropology...
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The Bewitched City: Psychopolitics in the Wake of the Social

Milad Odabaei
Public Culture 11767257.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11767257
Published: 19 March 2025
...Milad Odabaei Abstract In late 2022, after the rise and repression of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, a strange condition emerged among schoolgirls across Iran. While on school premises, young women momentarily lost cognitive and motor functions and became incapacitated. The Iranian public came...
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Turkish Women, West German Feminists, and the Gendered Discourse on Muslim Cultural Difference

Rita Chin
Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 557–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-009
Published: 01 September 2010
...Rita Chin A striking aspect of contemporary European debates about immigrants is the focus on the Muslim woman as the key figure through which objections to Islamic cultural difference have been articulated. This article traces how sexual politics became central to German public debates about guest...
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Subjects of Risk: Technologies of Gender in the Making of Millennial Modernity

Ananya Roy
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 131–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1498001
Published: 01 January 2012
... intimacy are once again mediated through technologies of gender, such that the Third World woman as a timeless image of aspiration becomes the subject that transcends risk. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Subjects of Risk: Technologies of Gender...
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Figure 2. Colombia’s 2008 “The Only Risk Is Wanting to Stay” campaign, featuring a woman dressed as someone from Palenque. Proexport Colombia

Colombia’s 2008 “The Only Risk Is Wanting to Stay” campaign, featuring a wo...

in Burlesquing Blackness: Racial Significations in Carnivals and the Carnivalesque on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast > Public Culture
Published: 01 January 2019
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Homely Housewives Run Amok: Lesbians in Marital Fixes

Geeta Patel
Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 131–158.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-1-131
Published: 01 January 2004
... to Washington City: Essays on sex and citizenship . Durham,N.C.: Duke University Press. Bhattacharjee, Anannya. 1992 . The habit of ex-nomination: Nation, woman, and the Indian immigrant bourgeoisie. Public Culture 5 : 19 -44. Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 1994 . The difference-deferral of a colonial modernity...
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Face Mask Face-Offs: Culture and Conflict in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Eric Klinenberg, Melina Sherman
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 441–466.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262919
Published: 01 September 2021
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The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras

Melissa W. Wright
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 453–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-453
Published: 01 September 1999
... industrial city of Ciudad Juárez.1 On 21 March 1999, another young woman was found half-buried in the desert and bearing signs of rape and torture. Most of these women range in age from their teens to their thirties, and many worked in the export-processing maquila factories that have been operating...
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“Left to the Imagination”: Indian Nationalisms and Female Sexuality in Trinidad

Tejaswini Niranjana
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 223–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-223
Published: 01 January 1999
... This business about the women is the weakest and the irredemiable part of the evil. . . . These women are not necessarily wives. Men and women are huddled together during the voyage. The marriage is a farce. A mere declaration by man or woman made upon landing...
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The Public Fetus and the Family Car: From Abortion Politics to a Volvo Advertisement

Janelle S. Taylor
Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 67–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-2-67
Published: 01 May 1992
... childhood in need of parental protection. What does the sight of the fetus mean in contemporary American culture? It will be useful to distin- guish here between “personal” images (i.e., ones which a woman might view as representing her own fetus, taken by her own doctor, at her own request...
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Fashion, Gender and the Bengali Middle Class

Dulali Nag
Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 93–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3-2-93
Published: 01 May 1991
... and fashion literature in the popular newspapers and news- magazines in Calcutta today? The sari is the principal garb for women in this city and in the cultural region to which the city belongs. Hence the writing of the sari in fashion is also a writing of the woman. Fashion as a subject...
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Mediating Time: The “Rice Bowl of Youth” in Fin de Siècle Urban China

Zhang Zhen
Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 93–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-93
Published: 01 January 2000
...: The Cultural Politics of Mod- ern Chinese Transnationalism, ed. Aihwa Ong and Don Nonini (New York: Routledge, 1997), 287–319. 96 Edible Time, Ephemeral Beauty, Chinese Woman Mediating Time Recent visitors to China, especially...
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