ISBN:
978-0-312-29545-5
,
978-0-312-29585-1
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 388 Seiten
,
Ill., graph. Darstellungen
Edition:
first Palgrave edition
Keywords:
Indien Uttar Pradesh
;
Kolonie, britisch
;
Frau
;
Mutterschaft
;
Sexualität
;
Männlichkeit
;
Beziehungen Mann-Frau
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Hinduismus
;
Hindu
;
Islam
;
Muslime
;
Beziehungen Hinduismus-Islam
;
Öffentlichkeit
;
Gemeinschaft
;
Kommunalismus
;
Nationalismus
;
Prostitution
;
Literatur, indische
;
Presse
;
Politik
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
With reference to Hindu and Muslim ethics and relation to social problems; a study of Uttar Pradesh. Through analysis of an impressive array of 'low' and 'high' Hindu literatures, particularly pamphlets, tracts, newspapers, and archival data, Gupta explores the emerging discourse of gender and sexuality, which was essential to the development of notions of Hindu communitality and nationalism in the colonial period. The book offers an exceptionally nuanced account of Hindi gender politics.
Description / Table of Contents:
Women, Caste, Class and Hindu Communalism in UP -- Redefining Obscenity and Aesthetics in Print -- Colonial Perceptions of Obscenity -- 'Obscenities' in Hindi Literature -- The Indigenous Elite and Literary Concerns -- 'Dirty' Literature: Contesting the Logic of Morality? -- Brahmacharya, Kaliyug and the Advertisement of Aphrodisiacs -- Sanitising Women's Social Spaces -- Controls over Entertainment -- The Dangers of Prostitutes: The Moral and Urban Geographical Frameworks of Hindus -- Mapping the Domestic Domain -- Unstable Sexualities: The Sexual Politics of the Home -- Conjugality and Desire: The Power of Difference -- Controversies Around Some Legislative Activities on Hindu Marriage -- Fashion, Clothes, Jewellery, Purdah -- The Devar-Bhabhi Relationship -- Education and the Fear of Reading: Stated Aims, Unintended Consequences -- Gender, Health and Medical Knowledge -- From Traditional Dais to Trained Midwives -- Child-Care, Women's Health and Indigenous Practices -- Plague and Women's Honour -- The Icon of the Mother: Bharat Mata, Matri Bhasha and Gau Mata -- Mapping the Mother/Nation: The Bharat Mata Temple at Banaras -- Language Debates -- Hindi as Mother -- Lewd or Chaste, Feminine or Masculine? -- The Cow as Mother -- 'Us' and 'Them': Anxious Hindu Masculinity and the 'Other' -- From Malabar to Malkanas: The Shuddhi and Sangathan Movements -- Evoking Hindu Male Prowess, Community and Nation -- Hindu Woman as Sister-in-Arms -- Conceiving the 'Other' -- Approaching the Muslim Woman.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 345-384Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) -- SOAS, London.
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