TY - JOUR
T1 - Magic Moments of Struggle: Women's Memory of the Naxalbari Movement in West Bengal, India (1967-75)
AU - Roy, Mallarika Sinha
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper focuses on women's memories of participation in the Naxalbari movement in West Bengal. These memories, sourced from women's oral histories and published memoirs, capture not only women's visions of emancipation and camaraderie but their everyday struggles, experiences of fear and violence and patriarchal domination within the movement as well. As these memories are refracted by the women's diverse socio-economic and cultural locations, the paper makes an effort to distinguish the multiple meanings of the ‘magic moments of struggle' in the lives of peasant/working-class women, from those of middle-class women from smaller towns and upper middle-class metropolitan women.
AB - This paper focuses on women's memories of participation in the Naxalbari movement in West Bengal. These memories, sourced from women's oral histories and published memoirs, capture not only women's visions of emancipation and camaraderie but their everyday struggles, experiences of fear and violence and patriarchal domination within the movement as well. As these memories are refracted by the women's diverse socio-economic and cultural locations, the paper makes an effort to distinguish the multiple meanings of the ‘magic moments of struggle' in the lives of peasant/working-class women, from those of middle-class women from smaller towns and upper middle-class metropolitan women.
U2 - 10.1177/097152150901600203
DO - 10.1177/097152150901600203
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 205
EP - 232
JO - Indian Journal of Gender Studies
JF - Indian Journal of Gender Studies
SN - 0971-5215
IS - 2
ER -