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Paola Bacchetta is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at
University of California at Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from
The Sorbonne, Paris, in 1996, with highest honors. Her geographic areas of
specialization outside the U.S. are India and France.
She is author of Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologists (New Delhi: Women
Unlimited, 2003), and co-editor of Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to
Extremists around the World (New York: Routledge, 2002). She has published
articles on gender, sexuality, Hindu nationalism, political conflict,
"race"-racism, postcoloniality, and feminist and queer movements, in
journals such as Social Text; Feminist Studies; Journal of Women's
History; Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography; Growth and Change;
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. She has also published
chapters in edited books on global political conflict, Hindu nationalism,
and feminist and queer movements in India.
Besides the U.S., her work has
been published in journals and anthologies in Australia, Brazil, Britain,
Canada, France, India, Italy. She has had research appointments at the
Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard University, the UC
Humanities Research Institute at Irvine in California, and Centre d'Etudes
et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) of Fondation nationale des
sciences politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.
Links
Publication: Co-Formations : Sur les spatialités de résistance de lesbiennes 'of color'
en France. Sexualité, genre et société. No. 1, Vol. 1. Paris, France. June 2009.
Publication: 2008 "A Transnational Conversation on French Colonialism, Immigration, Violence and Sovereignty" with Miriam Ticktin and Ruth Marshall, Scholar and Feminist, June.
Talk: 2003 "Producing the Hindu Nation and Its 'Others' Through Gender and
Sexuality"
Interview: 2008 "Gender, Race, Sexualities and the Presidential Primaries." Women's Magazine, KPFA, aired February 4
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