Book Description
Contributed articles.
Author : Alfred De Souza
Publisher : New Delhi : Manohar
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Contributed articles.
Author : S. K. Choudhary
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Women
ISBN : 9789380138350
Author : Nita Kumar
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813915227
Women as Subjects affords a rare opportunity to consider the changing identity and status of women in India today- how they view themselves and how they are viewed- through the current work of seven scholars- anthropologists, historians, and sociologists from India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These essays combined with Nita Kumar's substantial theoretical introduction, illustrate the overall problem of women's subjectivity extraordinarily well and serve to question, modify, and adapt Western-based feminist theory and Eurocentric postmodern theory, building a bridge both to non-South Asian feminist work and to nonfeminist South Asian work.
Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 082235179X
This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally.
Author : Alfred De Souza
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780883867204
Author : Sudha Nayar
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Women
ISBN : 9789380731339
Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137403055
This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.
Author : Alfred De Souza
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Subhadra Mitra Channa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1107435986
This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and ethnographic materials forming a historical discourse. There is an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations across time and space. The readers are taken on a journey that shows how gender can only be understood in its social and historical context and as a dynamic and performative concept that emerges out of both collective imaginations and social realities. The use of descriptive and narrative style makes the book readable and enjoyable to both academic and non-academic readers.
Author : Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295748850
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.