Himani Bannerji
Canadian writer and academic
Himani Bannerji (born 1942) is a Bengali-Canadian author and sociologist.
Early life and education
Bannerji was born in what is now Bangladesh, then a part of British India. She studied in Dhaka then in Kolkata. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from Visva-Bharati University and Jadavpur University respectively, becoming a lecturer at the latter from 1965 to 1969. She then received her M.A. from the University of Toronto and taught at Victoria College and Atkinson College. She started work on a PhD in sociology in 1980 and it was completed in 1988 with the title: The Politics of Representation: A Study of Class and Class Struggle in the Political Theatre of West Bengal.
Career
She is a Senior Scholar in the Department of Sociology and has taught in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought and the Graduate Program in Women's Studies at York University in Canada.
Bannerji works in the areas of Marxist, feminist, and anti-racist theory. She is especially focused on reading colonial discourse through Karl Marx's concept of ideology and putting together a reflexive analysis of gender, race and class. Bannerji also lectures about the gaze and the othering and silencing of women who are marginalized.
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