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An empire of touch : women's political labor and the fabrication of East Bengal (Record no. 566646)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780231196239 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | pbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.42 |
| Item number | SAH |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Saha Poulomi |
| 245 #3 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | An empire of touch : women's political labor and the fabrication of East Bengal |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | /Poulomi Saha |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Columbia University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Place of publication | NY |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii, 319 pages,: |
| Other physical details | : illustrations |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographies and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In today's world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industry -- and the labor organizing pushing back -- draws on a long history of gendered labor division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedent of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of women's labor to anticolonial protest and postcolonial state-building, historiography has struggled with what appears to be its absence from the archive. Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women's political labor in East Bengal over more than a century, one that suggests new ways to think about textiles and the gendered labors of their making. An Empire of Touch argues that women have articulated--in writing, in political action, in stitching--their own desires in their own terms. They produce narratives beyond women's empowerment and independence as global and national projects; they refuse critical pronouncements of their own subjugation. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Bengal (India) History Bengal (India) Politics and government Femmes Activité politique Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) Histoire Femmes dans le développement Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) Histoire HISTORY Asia India & South Asia History India Bengal |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | English Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type | Copy number |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 3RD FLOOR, B WING | 02.08.2024 | 699.00 | 305.42 SAH | 697241 | 02.08.2024 | English Books | |||||
| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 3RD FLOOR, B WING | 02.08.2024 | 699.00 | 305.42 SAH;1 | 697242 | 12.12.2024 | English Books | 1 |