 | An Empire of Touch: Women''s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal Subjects: Women in development -- India -- Bengal -- History; Women -- Political activity -- India -- Bengal -- History; Women textile workers -- India -- Bengal -- History; Nation-building -- India -- Bengal; Bengal (India) -- Politics and government; Bengal (Indi; Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women's political labor in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire. Saha Poulomi : Poulomi Saha (PhD, English, Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, with affiliations in the Program in Critical Theory, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and the Institute for South Asia Studies. She has published articles in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. This is her first book.Poulomi Saha is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. |
