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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.