Gender, Nation, and Nationalism

Auteur

Amrita Saikia has a Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. Currently, she is a Visiting Fellow (2023-2024) funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the Institute for Asian Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg.

Texte du rabat

This book looks at the question of the Tibetan nation from the perspective of Tibetan women in exile.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Tracing the History 3. Interfaces of Gender, Nation, and Nationalism 4. Interrogating Tibetan Women's Construction of the Idea of the Tibetan Nation: Evidence from the Field 5. Tibetan Women in Exile and Their Contributions to Tibetan Nationalism: Agents or Symbols? 6. Tibetan Women in Exile: Position, Agency, and Aspirations 7. Conclusion