Vinay Lal - Moral & Political Thought of Gandhi, Lecture 13 of 19, May 12, 2016
Watch the playlist: Vinay Lal - Moral & Political Thought of Gandhi, Lectures 19 https://rutube.ru/plst/1583914 University of California, Los Angeles. We begin with a question about Gandhi's family and a question about Gandhi's place in the Indian independence movement. Was Britain weakened by World War II? How was decolonization in India different than in other parts of the world? How important was India to the British empire? At 18:25, we resume where we left off in the last lecture, reviewing Gandhi's relations with women and the politics of sexuality. What was the nature of Gandhi's femininity and what do we mean by the feminization of the public sphere? Gandhi thought that women were stronger than men. The gendered division of labor. What is the difference between sex and sexuality? A Buddhist parable about detachment, women, and celibacy. What do we mean by andogyny and effeminacy and what bearing do they have in understanding Gandhi's politics of sexuality? How do we distinguish between Gandhi's order of sexuality and the colonial order of sexuality? How did Gandhi respond to acts of violence of women? Did he counsel nonviolence and what would that entail? Violence is not just the presence of violence. Gandhi critiqued false modesty/shame on the part of women. What did Gandhi think about the relationship of masculinity to the nation-state, and was his critique of masculinity not also a critique at the same time of the nation-state? Vinay Lal is an Indian historian. He is a professor of history and Asian American studies at UCLA. He writes widely on the history and culture of colonial and modern India, popular and public culture in India, cinema, historiography, the politics of world history, the Indian diaspora, global politics, contemporary American politics, the life and thought of Mohandas Gandhi, Hinduism, and the politics of knowledge systems.
Watch the playlist: Vinay Lal - Moral & Political Thought of Gandhi, Lectures 19 https://rutube.ru/plst/1583914 University of California, Los Angeles. We begin with a question about Gandhi's family and a question about Gandhi's place in the Indian independence movement. Was Britain weakened by World War II? How was decolonization in India different than in other parts of the world? How important was India to the British empire? At 18:25, we resume where we left off in the last lecture, reviewing Gandhi's relations with women and the politics of sexuality. What was the nature of Gandhi's femininity and what do we mean by the feminization of the public sphere? Gandhi thought that women were stronger than men. The gendered division of labor. What is the difference between sex and sexuality? A Buddhist parable about detachment, women, and celibacy. What do we mean by andogyny and effeminacy and what bearing do they have in understanding Gandhi's politics of sexuality? How do we distinguish between Gandhi's order of sexuality and the colonial order of sexuality? How did Gandhi respond to acts of violence of women? Did he counsel nonviolence and what would that entail? Violence is not just the presence of violence. Gandhi critiqued false modesty/shame on the part of women. What did Gandhi think about the relationship of masculinity to the nation-state, and was his critique of masculinity not also a critique at the same time of the nation-state? Vinay Lal is an Indian historian. He is a professor of history and Asian American studies at UCLA. He writes widely on the history and culture of colonial and modern India, popular and public culture in India, cinema, historiography, the politics of world history, the Indian diaspora, global politics, contemporary American politics, the life and thought of Mohandas Gandhi, Hinduism, and the politics of knowledge systems.