A comparison between women and men
Subtitle: Tarabai Shinde and the critique of gender relations in colonial India
By: Rosalind O'Hanlon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Madras; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women -- India.; Women -- India -- Social conditions.; Domestic relations -- India.
Description: Interest in the history of women and gender relations in India has intensified greatly in recent years. Historians have explored not only the way in which colonial rule shaped this history, but also the significance of gender itself in helping to construct and maintain colonial hegemony.

A problem in this field, however, has been that we have very little direct testimony from women themselves for much of the colonial period, particularly testimony which directly addresses the question of women's changing social circumstances and relations with men.

Tarabai Shinde's A Comparison between Women and Men, written in Marathi, and published in 1882, provides us with one example of such a 'woman's voice', speaking directly and passionately on the ways in which she saw men in colonial society as having silenced and disempowered Indian womenfolk.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.