Buch, Englisch, 622 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 2216 g
Colonial and Post-colonial Periods
Buch, Englisch, 622 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 2216 g
Reihe: History of Science, Philosophy & Culture India
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3409-7
Verlag: SAGE Publications
This valuable reference work, the first volume in the SAGE series History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, offers insights into the lives of Indian women by taking into account the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender. The themes taken up in the various essays in this volume are crucial to the understanding and experience of gender in India. They revolve around a number of important central issues: - That the `woman question' was the chosen site for cultural confrontation between the colonial British and the colonized Indians; - That the freedom movement gave women the opportunity to break the monopoly of men over the political arena; - That despite legal and constitutional guarantees concerning the equality of the sexes, women in post-colonial India are struggling to be treated as equals. The essays are divided into six interrelated sections: Family/Law; Body/Sexuality; Knowledge System; Work; Creativity/Voices; and Politics. Within these broad frameworks, the 30 contributors to this volume explore the operation of power and women's resistance to it, and how they continue to play a role in modern-day India. Drawing on themes across disciplines and across India to raise our awareness of overt and covert discriminations against women, the book reminds us of the multiple ways in which women manage to survive and thrive despite familial, community and state neglect.
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Introduction - Bharati Ray
PART ONE: FAMILY/LAW
Politicization of Personal Laws: A Study of Colonial India - Flavia Agnes
Legislating the Family in Post-Independence India - Patricia Uberoi
Reviewing Muslim Women and Marriage - Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon
A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Finding
Understanding the Dalit Feminist Identity - Gopal Guru
PART TWO: BODY/SEXUALITY
Women, Health and Demography - Leela Visaria
Deficit of Women in India
Imagined Lovers - Prem Chowdhry
Ideology, Practice and Social Hierarchies
Friends and Lovers - G Arunima
Towards a Social History of Emotions in 19th and 20th Century Kerala
Violent Acts - Kumkum Sangari
Cultures, Structures and Retraditionalisation
PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
A Century and a Half's Journey - Aparna Basu
Women's Education in India, 1850s to 2000
Women and Formal and Informal Science - Anil K Gupta and R A Mashelkar
Women and Environment - Jayshree Vencatesan, R J Ranjit Daniels and Madhav Gadgil
PART FOUR: WORK
Gendering Agrarian Issues - Smita Tewari Jassal
The Uttar Pradesh Experience
Some Dimensions of Female Employment in India - Sudha Deshpande
Women Workers and Industrial Restructuring in Two Industries in Mumbai - Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah
Women and Water - K J Joy and Suhas Paranjape
Relationships, Experiences, Approaches
Women, Hunger and Famine - Parama Roy
Bengal, 1350/1943
PART FIVE: CREATIVITY/VOICES
A Voice of Protest - Bharati Ray
The Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
Women and Music - Amlan Das Gupta
The Case of North India
Reassembling the Modern - Anuradha Kapur
An Indian Theatre Map since Independence
Women Artists of Rural India - Jyotindra Jain
Women Patrons of Art and Architecture - Jutta Jain-Neubauer
The Case of Stepwells of Gujarat
PART SIX: POLITICS
Political Women - Tanika Sarkar
An Overview of Modern Indian Developments
Citizenship and its Discontents - Vasanth Kannabiran and Kalpana Kannabiran
A Political History of Women in Andhra
Is the Women's Movement on the Move? - Gabriele Dietrich
