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Research Interests:
Feminist Theory, Science
Studies, Postcoloniality and the Indic Space, Marxian Theory, Philosophies and
Cultures of the Body, Continental Philosophy, Sexualities
Courses Taught:
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS/JOURNALS:
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Edited
Banglay Binirman/Abinirman, a collection of Bangla writings on
deconstruction, Ababhash Publications, January 2007.
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Edited a
collection of Bangla writings on feminist theory for a special issue of
Alochanachakra, November 2005.
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Member of
the Editorial Collective of From the Margins- a journal of critical theory
in a postcolonial setting’.
JOURNAL AND
OTHER ARTICLES:
PAPERS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED
IN JOURNALS:
In English
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“The
Desired ‘One’: Thinking the Woman in the Nation” (co-authored by Ritu Sen
Chaudhuri), History Compass Journal 5 (5), 2007.
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A review of
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity,
Book Line XII (5), 2007.
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“Of Rights
and the (M)others: The question of Abortion in a Planetary Frame” (a different
version of “Choice, life and the (m)other: towards ethics in/of abortion”),
The Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology 1(1), November 2005.
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“What
Impact, if any, has Feminism had on Science”, Newsletter of the School
of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Volume 16, November 2004.
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“of death and medicine: negotiating the other” (a
different version of “Of Death and Medicine: Themes, Motifs and other
Bodily Matters”), Rabindrabharati Journal of Philosophy 2004, the
Department of Philosophy, Rabindrabharati University.
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“In search
of the third world woman: the (in) corporeality of body-metaphors”, from
the margins, February, 2002.
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“Medical
Knowledge of the Body: Colonial Encounters”, Rethinking Marxism, 13
(2), September 2001.
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“in(re)trospection: suturing of
selves past”, From the Margins, February, 2001.
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“In search
of the feminist woman: the (im)possibility of being”, From
the Margins, August 2000.
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“Speaking
About Science, Knowledge and Coloniality: An Introductory Essay”,
From the Margins, February 2000.
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“In search of a feminist theory
for men: the (im)possibility of woman”, From the Margins,
August, 1999.
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“What it is
to Know The Body: Medicine and Modernity”, From the Margins, September,
1998.
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“Historiography of Science in India: Quicksands of Paradigm”, The Indian
Journal of History of Science, Vol. 33, No. 3 (1998).
ESSAYS INCLUDED IN
ANTHOLOGIES (IN ENGLISH):
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Forthcoming a commissioned article on “The History of Calcutta Medical
College” (co-authored by Samita Sen) for the book Science and Modern India:
An Institutional History c. 1784-1947, ed., Uma Dasgupta.
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Forthcoming, “Choice, life and the (m)other: towards ethics in/of abortion”
in Human Rights and Ethics: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Obligations
ed., Shashi Motilal, Anthem Press, an academic imprint of Wimbledon Publishing
Company.
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A slightly
modified version of “In search of the third world woman: the (in)corporeality
of body-metaphors” has been published in Post-Structuralism and Cultural
Theory, ed., Franson Manjali, Allied Publishers, 2006.
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“Of Death
and Medicine: Themes, Motifs and other Bodily Matters” in Thematology:
Literary Studies in India ed. Sibaji Bandyopadhyay,
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, August 2004.
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“The
emergence of the Body: An Essay in the History of Medical Knowledge”
in History Science and Society in the Indian Context, ed. A. K. Biswas,
The Asiatic Society, Bengal, 2001.
ESSAYS
IN BANGLA:
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“Binirman: Ekti Bhumika Nibondho”, an introductory essay
to Banglay Binirman/Abinirman, Ababhas Pulications, 2007.
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“Kathamukh” in Alochanchakra 22, Special Number on
Feminist Theory, 2005.
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“Derrida, Nari o Naribader Katha”, Antahsar 1 (2),
February 2005.
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“(Raj)Nitir
Sonkot o Sambhabana: Uttar Adhunikata”, Anustup
39 (1), October 2004.
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Review of
Journal Sottor by Raghab Bandyopadhyay and Amar Communist Jibon
by Kalyan Datta, Baromas, 2003.
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Review of
Habitations of Modernity by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ananda Bazar Patrika,
18th January 2003.
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“Genetics:
janar naitikata’, co-authored in Alochanachakra.
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Review of
Samoyiki edited by Pradip Bose, Baromas, 1999.
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“Ajantrik”
in Ebong Protorko, 1999.
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“Hinsa /
na-hinsa” co-authored in Apar.
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“Sharir, rog, medicine: cliniker
janmo” in Alochanachakra.
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‘Aamaader nation porichoy’ in
Pratibarto, March 1998.
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‘Seshaner gonotontro’ in
Bishongbad, 1995.
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‘Bamponthi kothabarta’ in
Bishongbad 1995.
Work in
Progress:
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The Body
in Third World Feminisms: Toward a Politics of the (Im)Possible: on the
body in third world feminisms and its implications for a different ethics and
politics.
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On the
general notion of third-world feminism as it works in certain instances in the
Indian subcontinent.
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On
translating deconstruction in different spaces.
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