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Dissertation Information for Namita Goswami

NAME:
- Namita Goswami

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Women's Studies

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (2003)

ADVISORS:
- Deepika Bahri

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Ambiguous

Title: Who was Roop Kanwar? The subject in question in contemporary feminist theory

Abstract: My dissertation is a philosophical analysis of the status of the subject in contemporary feminist theory. I perform this analysis through a case study of Roop Kanwar, a 19 year-old Rajput widow, who was immolated on the funeral pyre of her husband in September 1987 in western India. I argue that the aggregate ontology of the racially marked and colonized female body as object/victim predetermines the subject and its knowledge production, given its categories of identity. Can particularity yield and substantiate general claims about the subject, epistemology, and representation? I examine the contradiction between theories that privilege particularity and the condition of philosophy that posits an unknowable subject.

MPACT Scores for Namita Goswami

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calculated 2008-03-24 09:28:19

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