Women of India: colonial and post-colonial periods
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications (c2005) ; New Delhi: Sage Publications (2005), c2005; 2005
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Bibliografie, Sammelwerk, Elektronische Ressource
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The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way. This volume offers insights into women's lives in colonial and post-colonial India, fully cognizant of the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender. The essays in this volume explore the operation of power and the resistance to it, the space that was denied to the disadvantaged gender-women-and the space they created for themselves, and the history of
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; General Introduction; Introduction; Politicization of Personal Laws: A Study of Colonial India; Legislating the Family in Post-Independence India; Reviewing Muslim Women and Marriage: A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Finding; Understanding the Dalit Feminist Identity; Women, Health and Demography: Deficit of Women in India; Imagined Lovers: Ideology, Practice and Social Hierarchies; Friends and Lovers: Towards a Social History of Emotions in 19th and 20th Century Kerala; Violent Acts: Cultures, Structures and Retraditionalisation
A Century and a Half's Journey: Women's Education in India, 1850s to 2000Women and Formal and Informal Science; Women and Environment; Gendering Agrarian Issues: The Uttar Pradesh Experience; Some Dimensions of Female Employment in India; Women Workers and Industrial Restructuring in Two Industries in Mumbai; Women and Water: Relationships, Experiences, Approaches; Women, Hunger, and Famine: Bengal, 1350/1943; A Voice of Protest: The Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932); Women and Music: The Case of North India; Reassembling the Modern: An Indian Theatre Map since Independence
Women Artists of Rural IndiaWomen Patrons of Art and Architecture: The Case of Stepwells of Gujarat; Political Women: An Overview of Modern Indian Developments; Citizenship and its Discontents: A Political History of Women in Andhra; Is the Women's Movement on the Move?; Index
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Women of India: colonial and post-colonial periods
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| Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | edited by Bharati Ray |
| Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Ray, Bharati [editor.] |
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| Veröffentlichung: | New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications (c2005) ; New Delhi: Sage Publications (2005), c2005; 2005 |
| Medientyp: | Bibliografie, Sammelwerk |
| Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (674 p.) |
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