ISBN:
9780198900801
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
DDC:
305.40954
Keywords:
Women-India-Social conditions
Abstract:
Gender in Modern India brings together research on a range of themes, including masculinity and sexuality; social reforms, castes, and contestations; Adivasis, patriarchy, and colonialism; capitalism, political economy, and labour; health, medical care, and institution building; culture and identity; and migration and its new dynamics.
Abstract:
Cover -- Gender in Modern India -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Writing Gender: Recasting Women and Beyond -- SECTION I: Reforms, Castes, and Contestations -- 1. Locating Consent: The Social and Historical Contexts of 'Choice' in Marriage -- 2. Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy: Anti-Caste Movements in Colonial Maharashtra -- Section II: Tribes, Patriarchy, and Colonialism -- 3. Reversing of Gender: Anti-colonial Resistance by Women Warriors in Northeast India -- 4. Adivasis, Gender, and Witch-Hunting in Early Colonial Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas -- Section III: Political Economy and Labour -- 5. Women, Union, and the Strike Against Sexual Harassment in Colonial Madurai, 1920 -- 6. Negotiating Crisis: The Great Depression and Women's Lives in Colonial Punjab -- Section IV: Masculinity and Sexuality -- 7. Fragmentary Histories, Subaltern Sexualities, and Vernacular Archives -- 8. White Femininity-Black Masculinity: Imperialism, Racism, and Gender Relations in the Empire Film The Rains Came -- Section V: Health, Medical Care, and Institution Building -- 9. Midwifery, Childbirth, and Breastfeeding Advice in Colonial Bengal -- 10. Women Missionaries in Medical Care and Institution Building in India -- Section VI: Culture and Identity -- 11. The Muslim Courtesans in Colonial India -- 12. Margin(al) Maithili: Cultural Politics of Engendered Folk in Mithila -- Section VII: Migrations and their NEW Dynamics -- 13. Doing Care, Making Socialities on the Move: Gendering Internal Migration in India -- 14. Mapping Marginal Terrains: Corridors of Women's Labour Migration from Odisha -- Index.
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