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Gender in modern India : history, culture, marginality /

'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...

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Other Authors: Singh, Lata, 1960- (Editor), Sinha, Shashank Shekhar (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women > India > Social conditions.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Women's Studies.
Society & culture: general.
Society.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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