ISBN:
0230553443
,
9780230553446
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 233 p)
,
ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Behind the Veil : Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia
DDC:
305.48/8914
Keywords:
Women History
;
Feminism History
;
Women Social conditions
;
Feminism -- India -- History
;
Women -- India -- History
;
Women -- India -- Social conditions
;
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Abstract:
This book re-examines 'everyday resistance', gender and power through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. Moving away from educated and outstanding figures and drawing on a range of unconventional sources, it unearths a narrative of deep and enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 From the Symbolic to the Open: Women's Resistance in Colonial Maharashtra; 3 Small Acts of Rebellion: Women Tell their Photographs; 4 Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth-century Public Sphere Debates; 5 Subtle Subversions and Presumptuous Interventions: Reforming Women's Health in Bhopal State in the Early Twentieth Century; 6 Gender, Subalternity, and Silence: Recovering Convict Women's Experiences from Histories of Transportation, c. 1780-1857
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Litigious Widow: Inheritance Disputes in Colonial North India, 1875-19118 A World of their Very Own: Religion, Pain, and Subversion in Bengali Homes in the Nineteenth Century; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2007
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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