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UnCivil Lines: Engendering Citizenship in the Postcolonial City
1998
NWSA Journal
This article explores the relationship between gender and urban space within the context of communal and ethnic strife in Bombay. It extends feminist responses to the crises, as well as takes issues with these theories' assumptions regarding feminist subjectivities. The article concludes with a reading of a literary text, Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence, as an instance of a thoughtful artistic response to the ruptures within women's private and political identities precipitated by
doi:10.2979/nws.1998.10.2.32
fatcat:nbrkak6mi5bnvbh2tiec66wplm