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CONTENTS introduction Eugenic Feminism and the Problem of National Development 1 1 Perfecting Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Eugenic Utopias 33 2 Regenerating Feminism: Sarojini Naidu’s Eugenic Feminist Renaissance 65 3 “World Menace”: National Reproduction, Public Health, and the Mother India Debate 99 4 The Vanishing Peasant Mother: Reimagining Mother India for the 1950s 133 5 Severed Limbs, Severed Legacies: Indira Gandhi’s Emergency and the Problem of Subalternity 173 epilogue Transnational Surrogacy and the Neoliberal Mother India 201 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 Index 251 This page intentionally left blank ...

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