{"product_id":"an-empire-of-touch-womens-political-labor-and-the-fabrication-of-east-bengal-paperback","title":"An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePoulomi Saha\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn today's world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industry--and the labor organizing pushing back--draws on a long history of gendered labor division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedent of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of women's labor to anticolonial protest and postcolonial state-building, historiography has struggled with what appears to be its absence from the archive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women's political labor in East Bengal over more than a century, one that suggests new ways to think about textiles and the gendered labors of their making. \u003ci\u003eAn Empire of Touch\u003c\/i\u003e argues that women have articulated--in writing, in political action, in stitching--their own desires in their own terms. They produce narratives beyond women's empowerment and independence as global and national projects; they refuse critical pronouncements of their own subjugation. Saha follows the historical traces of how women have claimed their own labor, contending that their political commitments are captured in the material objects of their manufacture. Her analysis of the production of historical memory through and by the bodies of women spans British colonialism and American empire, anticolonial nationalism to neoliberal globalization, depicting East Bengal between development economics and postcolonial studies. Through a material account of text and textile, \u003ci\u003eAn Empire of Touch\u003c\/i\u003e crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoulomi Saha is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710588850239,"sku":"9780231192095","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f70e7d050f041ff44b3147597d5d7cdd.webp?v=1765055466","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/an-empire-of-touch-womens-political-labor-and-the-fabrication-of-east-bengal-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}