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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...
| 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 |
| Sumario: | "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 the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skilfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, which are elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household and rooftop"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139840569 1139840568 9781139343312 1139343319 9781139845298 1139845292 9781139842938 1139842935 1107237491 9781107237490 1139854372 9781139854375 1139846140 9781139846141 1283836351 9781283836357 1139841742 9781139841740 9781107521346 1107521343 |