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Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness /

"In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lal, Ruby (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: opening the door
  • 1. Texts, spaces, histories
  • 2. The woman of the forest
  • 3. The woman of the school
  • 4. The woman of the household
  • 5. The woman of the rooftops
  • A retrospect: in pursuit of playfulness.