Women and Labour in Late Colonial India
Title | Women and Labour in Late Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Samita Sen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 1999-05-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521453631 |
Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
Gender and Class
Title | Gender and Class PDF eBook |
Author | Samita Sen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Sex discrimination in employment |
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Women in Colonial India
Title | Women in Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Jayasankar Krishnamurty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Social Science |
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This collection of essays on Indian women is an important contribution to both Indian historiography and feminist studies. The book covers such topics as the Hindu Widow's Remarriage act of 1856, female infanticide, property rights, social welfare systems, and the struggle for the right to vote.
Working Lives & Worker Militancy
Title | Working Lives & Worker Militancy PDF eBook |
Author | Ravi Ahuja |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | India |
ISBN | 9789382381211 |
Papers presented at the International Workshop on "The Politics of Poverty and the Politics of the Poor in Modern South Asia", held at Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen in 2011.
Women in Colonial India
Title | Women in Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Geraldine Hancock Forbes |
Publisher | Orient Blackswan |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN | 9788180280177 |
This Collection Of Essays On Politics, Medicine And Historiography Is About Those India Women Who Began To Be Educated And To Pay Some Role In Public Life.
Women of India
Title | Women of India PDF eBook |
Author | Bharati Ray |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 2005-10 |
Genre | History |
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The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way./-//-/ This volume offers insights into women’s lives in colonial and post-colonial India, fully cognizant of the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender./-//-/The essays in this volume explore the operation of power and the resistance to it, the space that was denied to the disadvantaged gender—women—and the space they created for themselves, and the history of the mutual roles of women and men in colonial and post-colonial India. Eminent scholars on women’s studies and reputed scientists, drawn from diverse disciplines and located in different parts of India, present themes that are crucial to the understanding and experience of gender in India.
Bonded Histories
Title | Bonded Histories PDF eBook |
Author | Gyan Prakash |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2003-10-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521526586 |
An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar.