Making Hindu Nation on the Bodies of Women

• In Event: Institutions and the Body

Abstract

I will discuss the political importance of women’s body, sexuality and attire as the marker of nation, culture, religion and community, mainly in the context of India. I plan to examine the discourse around controlling both Hindu and Muslim women's bodies and their personal lives, in the context of ongoing Hindu nationalist movement in India. I will analyze this discourse around women's human rights and religious rights along with the ongoing love Jihad propaganda in India.

Presenter

• Snehal Sharma, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky