Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history /

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"Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube
Otros Autores: Dube, Renu, Dube, Reena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.
Temas:
1765-1947
Infant girls > Violence against > India > History.
Infanticide > India > History.
Women > Violence against > India > History.
Women > India > Social conditions.
Feminism > India.
Violence envers les bébés filles > Inde > Histoire.
Infanticide > Inde > Histoire.
Femmes > Violence envers > Inde > Histoire.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Féminisme > Inde.
Bébés filles > Violence envers > Inde > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Feminism.
Infanticide.
Population.
Women > Social conditions.
Women > Violence against.
Vrouwen.
Kindermoord.
Geweld.
India > Population.
India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947.
Inde > Population.
Inde > Histoire > 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
India.
History.
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  • The practice of femicide in postcolonial India and the discourse of population control within the nation state
  • Center and periphery in British India : post-enlightenment discursive construction of daughters buried under the family room
  • Social mobility in relation to female infanticide in Rajput clans : British and indigenous contestations about lineage purity and hypergamy
  • A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part I : infanticide reform as an extra-economic extraction of surplus
  • A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part II : the erasure of the female child under population discourse
  • Subaltern traditions of resistance to Rajput patriarchy articulated by generations of women within the Meera tradition
  • The Meera tradition as a historic embrace of the poor and the dispossessed
  • Appendix : the Baee Nathee case.

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