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Women of India : colonial and post-colonial periods

Title
Women of India : colonial and post-colonial periods / edited by Bharati Ray.
Publication
New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, ©2005.

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Description
xlix, 622 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.
Series Statement
History of science, philosophy, and culture in Indian civilization. Volume IX, Colonial period ; pt. 3
Uniform Title
History of science, philosophy, and culture in Indian civilization. Volume IX, Colonial period ; pt. 3.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
General introduction / D.P. Chattopadhyaya -- Introduction / Bharati Ray -- 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: a preliminary analysis of survey finding / Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon -- Understanding the Dalit feminist identity / Gopal Guru -- Body/sexuality -- Women, health and demography: deficit of women in India / Leela Visaria -- Imagined lovers: ideology, practice and social hierarchies / Prem Chowdhry -- Friends and lovers: towards a social history of emotions in 19th and 20th century Kerala / G. Arunima -- Violent acts: cultures, structures and retraditionalisation / Kumkum Sangari -- Knowledge system -- A century and a half's journey: women's education in India, 1850s to 2000 / Aparna Basu -- 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 -- Work -- Gendering agrarian issues: the Uttar Pradesh experience / Smita Tewari Jassal -- 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: relationships, experiences, approaches / K.J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape -- Women, hunger, and famine: Bengal, 1350/1943 / Parama Roy -- Creativity/voices -- A voice of protest: the writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) / Bharati Ray -- Women and music: the case of North India / Amlan Das Gupta -- Reassembling the modern: an Indian theatre map since independence / Anuradha Kapur -- Women artists of rural India / Jyotindra Jain -- Women patrons of art and architecture: the case of Stepwells of Gujarat / Jutta Jain-Neubauer -- Politics -- Political women: an overview of modern Indian developments / Tanika Sarkar -- Citizenship and its discontents: a political history of women in Andhra / Vasanth Kannabiran and Kalpana Kannabiran -- Is the women's movement on the move? / Gabriele Dietrich.
ISBN
  • 076193409X
  • 9780761934097
LCCN
2005016179
OCLC
  • ocm60664296
  • 60664296
  • SCSB-1430997
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library