Women of India
Subtitle: colonial and post-colonial periods
By: edited by Bharati Ray.
Series: History of science, philosophy, and culture in Indian civilization.; pt. 3
Publisher: Sage Pulications; Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture; Centre for Studies in Civilization
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks; Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: Women -- India -- Social conditions -- History.; Women's rights -- India -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General introduction / D.P. Chattopadhyaya; title: Introduction / Bharati Ray; title: Family/law; title: Politicization of personal laws: a study of colonial India / Flavia Agnes; title: Legislating the family in post-independence India / Patricia Uberoi; title: Reviewing Muslim women and marriage: a preliminary analysis of survey finding / Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon; title: Understanding the Dalit feminist identity / Gopal Guru; title: Body/sexuality; title: Women, health and demography: deficit of women in India / Leela Visaria; title: Imagined lovers: ideology, practice and social hierarchies / Prem Chowdhry; title: Friends and lovers: towards a social history of emotions in 19th and 20th century Kerala / G. Arunima; title: Violent acts: cultures, structures and retraditionalisation / Kumkum Sangari; title: Knowledge system; title: A century and a half's journey: women's education in India, 1850s to 2000 / Aparna Basu; title: Women and formal and informal science / Anil K. Gupta and R.A. Mashelkar; title: Women and environment / Jayshree Vencatesan, R.J. Ranjit Daniels and Madhav Gadgil; title: Work; title: Gendering agrarian issues: the Uttar Pradesh experience / Smita Tewari Jassal; title: Some dimensions of female employment in India / Sudha Deshpande; title: Women workers and industrial restructuring in two industries in Mumbai / Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah; title: Women and water: relationships, experiences, approaches / K.J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape; title: Women, hunger, and famine: Bengal, 1350/1943 / Parama Roy; title: Creativity/voices; title: A voice of protest: the writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) / Bharati Ray; title: Women and music: the case of North India / Amlan Das Gupta; title: Reassembling the modern: an Indian theatre map since independence / Anuradha Kapur; title: Women artists of rural India / Jyotindra Jain; title: Women patrons of art and architecture: the case of Stepwells of Gujarat / Jutta Jain-Neubauer; title: Politics; title: Political women: an overview of modern Indian developments / Tanika Sarkar; title: Citizenship and its discontents: a political history of women in Andhra / Vasanth Kannabiran and Kalpana Kannabiran; title: Is the women's movement on the move? / Gabriele Dietrich.