Images of women in Maharashtrian society
By: Anne Feldhaus,  editor.
Contributors: Feldhaus, Anne.; International Conference on Maharashtra: Culture and Society (4th : 1991 : Arizona State University)
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Women -- India -- Maharashtra -- Social conditions.; Women -- India -- Maharashtra -- Economic conditions.
Description: This volume, a companion to Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion (SUNY Press, 1996), approaches more closely the realities of women's lives. Using historical documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and photographs, interviews, and conversations from the twentieth, the book constructs images of the conditions of women's lives in the modern state and traditional region of Maharashtra over the past three hundred years.

The authors search for the ideas, understandings, and judgments that have shaped those conditions, for the conscious and unconscious images that have made women's lives what they have been. The contributors examine ways femininity and the power, status, and potential of women have been viewed; actual women emphasizing ideas about women. Understanding ideas of this kind is a necessary first step toward understanding, and perhaps eventually affecting, the actualities of women's lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Maharashtra: Culture and Society held in April, 1991 at the Arizona State University.