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Revolutionary Desires: Women in Radical Politics by Professor Ania Loomba (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

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October 3, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Denney Hall 311

The South Asia Graduate Studies Association at Ohio State will host a public lecture by Professor Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, titled “Revolutionary Desires: Radical Women in Politics” in 311 Denney Hall at 5pm, October 3.

The lecture is based on her recent monograph Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India which examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India, from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. It traces their personal and political experiences through a wide range of writings—memoirs, autobiographies, novels, Party documents, and interviews—to show how they questioned, and were constrained by, the gendered norms of Indian political culture.