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Behind the veil : resistance, women and the everyday in colonial South Asia /
This book aims at re-examining the issue of ₁everyday resistance₂ through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. The overwhelming image of Indian women during the period is one of passivity, with the exception of some outstanding figures. The attempt in the present volume is to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book aims at re-examining the issue of ₁everyday resistance₂ through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. The overwhelming image of Indian women during the period is one of passivity, with the exception of some outstanding figures. The attempt in the present volume is to unearth a narrative of deeper and more enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives. In a breathtaking collection of essays key scholars in the field bring together evidence from a range of unconventional sources such as women's songs, photographs, and embroidery, but equally from legal records, memoirs, and published work, to present women in far more assertive and/or subversive roles. The volume is, however, as much about the nature of power as it is about women. Inspired by both subaltern and gender studies, it tries to highlight the complex ways in which power operates within oppressive structures, making any simple valorization - and for that matter, theorization - of gendered resistance difficult if not impossible. Contributors: Padma Anagol, Clare Anderson, Geraldine Forbes, Anindita Ghosh, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Tanika Sarkar, Nita Varma Prasad. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2007. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230583672 0230583679 1349363170 9781349363179 |
| Acceso: | Users can print and/or download individual articles/chapters and other individual items from Palgrave Connect ebooks, limited to no more than one chapter per title per authorised user. |