Nationalism and Sexuality

Mosse, George L.

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“…At the same time, the public became the domain of the masculine, women's participation in the public domain became closely tied to fitting within neat gender and sexualized categories (Cady & Fessenden, 2013). This fitted the d esire of governments of nineteenth-century nation-states to manage and control the sexuality of subjects, and especially the rules regarding women and men's public behaviour based on moral, interiorized notions of what was 'respectable' and ' normal' in that particular context (Mosse, 2020). As Lugones furthermore reminds us, 'respectability' is not only gendered but is also racialized (Lugones, 2008).…”

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Gender, Religion, and Harm

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2022

Religion and Gender-Based Violence

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Gender, Religion, and Harm

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2022

Religion and Gender-Based Violence

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“…156 In alignment with 'the Bengali stereotype' of the non-breastfeeding memsahib, 157 Das considered Indian women to have been Ma Lakkhi, because of their habit to always breastfeed. She became the symbolic 'mother of her people' 158 -akin to Mother India, a 'nurturing mother figure who gave birth to the millions' and 'nourished them on her milk'. 159 Her breasts were desexualised and sacralised through 'maternality', alongside her breast milk being likened to amrita or heavenly ambrosia.…”

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Motherhood on display: The child welfare exhibition in colonial Calcutta, 1920

Saha

2021

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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This article focuses on the Health and Child Welfare Exhibition held in colonial Calcutta in 1920. Despite a few scholarly references, however, there has been no detailed study till date. The vicereines of India launched child welfare exhibitions motivated by the transnational exhibitory baby health week propaganda initiative to curb infant mortality. These exhibitions were also locally organised and collaborative in nature with an urgent nationalist appeal. The study critically engages with select Exhibition lectures about so-called ‘clean’ midwifery and ‘scientific’ motherhood given by famous Bengali medical practitioners and other prominent professionals, predominantly men and a few women. These drew intimate sociobiological connections between the problems of ‘dirty’ midwifery, ritual pollution, improper confinement, insanitary childbirth, insufficient lactation and the excessive maternal and infant deaths in Calcutta. The central argument is that these public lectures primarily focused on the very making of the ‘ideal’ Indian nursing mother, often imagined as the traditional yet modern bhadramahila mother figure, for rejuvenating community and national health and vigour. Correspondingly, it highlights the transnational resonance of famous Frederic Truby King’s ‘mothercraft’ popularised as childcare by the clock. The paper is, therefore, guided by the twin purposes of filling the gap in our knowledge about child welfare exhibitions in colonial India and illuminating extant scholarship on the global infant welfare movement.

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“…146 A special issue on the history of sexuality, published in the Journal of Contemporary History in 1982, 147 and the organization of two panels on 'Homosexuality in the Left and the Right' at the 1986 Annual Meeting of American Historical Association, 148 showed his growing involvement on what he considered a crucial new field of study. Influenced by Steakley and Sander Gilman's works, 149 Mosse began to consider the history of sexuality a parallel topic to that of racism, both able to unmask the force of nationalism. His work experience in Amsterdam during the 1980s, starting with the 1983 International Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference, 'Among Men, Among Women', -where he presented a paper concerning 'a comparison of Jews and homosexuals generally as outsiders and the consequences of this for the Nazi final solution' 150 -continued with a deep engagement in the Dutch scholar debate with lectures at meeting of LG studies with large audience, interviews on cultural magazines and becoming the first visiting professor of gay and lesbian studies at the University of Amsterdam in 1988.…”

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Confronting Nationalism and the Recurring Crisis of Liberal Democracies: Mosse’s Contribution to the Public Debate

Aramini

2021

Journal of Contemporary History

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George L. Mosse was one of the greatest historian of fascism. However, his works clearly reveal that he was a true 20th century intellectual. This article aims at highlighting Mosse's thought on how to defend individual freedom and liberal democracies from the assaults of irrationalism, myths and intolerance in the second half of 20th century. In the midst of a western world dealing with the spreading of illiberal movements, Mosse's research offers tools for understanding the appeal of antidemocratic politics. Worried about the power of the States during the fifties, Mosse underlined the necessity of transforming the political action of democracies into a drama. The only way to prevent mass politics from being captured during the times of crisis by nationalism and by the demand for new forms of more direct democracy (including the desire for a leader) was both to adopt and to make tolerant the new politics diffused by nationalist mass movements. In Mosse's opinion, the antidote to the spread of exclusionary nationalism and the crisis of liberalism were the concept of Bildung and, following the first nationalists and Zionists, the humanisation of nationalism, by transforming the greatest ideological force of the 20th century, just as happened to socialist and Christian ideologies, into a liberal force.

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Nationalism and Sexuality

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Gender, Religion, and Harm

Motherhood on display: The child welfare exhibition in colonial Calcutta, 1920

Confronting Nationalism and the Recurring Crisis of Liberal Democracies: Mosse’s Contribution to the Public Debate

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