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Women of India : colonial and post-colonial periods /
This valuable reference work, the first volume in the SAGE series History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, offers insights into the lives of Indian women by taking into account the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender. T...
| Format: | Printed Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications,
c2005.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2005016179-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2005016179-t.html |
Table of Contents:
- General introduction / D.P. Chattopadhyaya
- Introduction / Bharati Ray
- Family/law
- Politicization of personal laws: a study of colonial India / Flavia Agnes
- Legislating the family in post-independence India / Patricia Uberoi
- Reviewing Muslim women and marriage: a preliminary analysis of survey finding / Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon
- Understanding the Dalit feminist identity / Gopal Guru
- Body/sexuality
- Women, health and demography: deficit of women in India / Leela Visaria
- Imagined lovers: ideology, practice and social hierarchies / Prem Chowdhry
- Friends and lovers: towards a social history of emotions in 19th and 20th century Kerala / G. Arunima
- Violent acts: cultures, structures and retraditionalisation / Kumkum Sangari
- Knowledge system
- A century and a half's journey: women's education in India, 1850s to 2000 / Aparna Basu
- Women and formal and informal science / Anil K. Gupta and R.A. Mashelkar
- Women and environment / Jayshree Vencatesan, R.J. Ranjit Daniels and Madhav Gadgil
- Work
- Gendering agrarian issues: the Uttar Pradesh experience / Smita Tewari Jassal
- Some dimensions of female employment in India / Sudha Deshpande
- Women workers and industrial restructuring in two industries in Mumbai / Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah
- Women and water: relationships, experiences, approaches / K.J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape
- Women, hunger, and famine: Bengal, 1350/1943 / Parama Roy
- Creativity/voices
- A voice of protest: the writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) / Bharati Ray
- Women and music: the case of North India / Amlan Das Gupta
- Reassembling the modern: an Indian theatre map since independence / Anuradha Kapur
- Women artists of rural India / Jyotindra Jain
- Women patrons of art and architecture: the case of Stepwells of Gujarat / Jutta Jain-Neubauer
- Politics
- Political women: an overview of modern Indian developments / Tanika Sarkar
- Citizenship and its discontents: a political history of women in Andhra / Vasanth Kannabiran and Kalpana Kannabiran
- Is the women's movement on the move? / Gabriele Dietrich.