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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ghosh, Anindita, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Temas:
Feminism > India > History.
Women > India > History.
Women > India > Social conditions.
Féminisme > Inde > Histoire.
Femmes > Inde > Histoire.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Asian history.
Gender studies: women.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
Social & cultural history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
History.
Feminism
Women
Women > Social conditions
India
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Small Acts of Rebellion: Women Tell Their Photographs; G. Forbes
  • The Litigious Widow: Inheritance Disputes in Colonial North India, 1875-1911; N.V. Prasad
  • Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth Century Public Sphere; T. Sarkar
  • Gender, Subalternity and Silence: Recovering Convict Women's Experiences from Histories of Transportation, c. 1780-1857; C. Anderson
  • A World of Their Very Own: Religion, Pain and Subversion in Bengali Homes in the Nineteenth Century; A. Ghosh
  • Subtle Subversions and Presumptuous Interventions: Reforming Women's Health in Bhopal State in the Early Twentieth Century; S. Lambert-Hurley
  • From the Symbolic to the Open: Women's Resistance in Colonial Maharashtra; P. Anagol.

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