Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness /
"In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of th...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Texts, spaces, histories; 2. The woman of the forest; 3. The woman of the school; 4. The woman of the household; 5. The woman of the rooftops.