Cultural politics of hygiene in India, 1890-1940 : : contagions of feeling / / Srirupa Prasad (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA).

"Can there be an affective history of hygiene? Is it possible to read into the narrative of modern hygiene active and animated tropes of emotion, affect, and feeling? New microbes, novel pandemics, and their global movements that have forcefully reinstated the efficacy of hygiene have also rein...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (153 pages) :; illustrations.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene
  • Hygiene, Colonialism, and Affective Histories
  • Objects, Affect, and Hygiene
  • Methods and Sources
  • Outline of Chapters
  • Alimentary Anxieties : Affect in Food and Hunger
  • Histories of Food and the Body
  • Food Adulteration, Embodiment and the Politics of Anxiety
  • Famine's Bodies
  • Body, Hygiene, and Affective Politics of Gandhi's Swaraj
  • Body, Affect, and Gandhi
  • Gandhi's Fasts
  • Race and Gandhi's Politics of Hygiene
  • Medicine as Contagion
  • Imagining the Social Body : Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion
  • Locating Women's Writings on Care in Early 20th Century India
  • Memorable Objects : Childhood, Memory, and Care in Shukhalata Rao's Writings
  • Memorable Spaces : Suffering and Education of Care in Priyabala Gupta's Memoir
  • Traveling Memories : Wandering and Care in Purnasashi Debi's Autobiography
  • Affective Remedies : Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene
  • Enchantments of Empire and Nation
  • Advertising, Consumer Culture, and Empire
  • Advertisements and Pluralist Medical Marketplace
  • Advertising Beauty, Womanhood, and Domesticity
  • Contagion of Advertisements.