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Author : Sangeeta Ray
Release : 2000-06-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 904/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis En-Gendering India by : Sangeeta Ray
Download or read book En-Gendering India written by Sangeeta Ray. This book was released on 2000-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExplores the relation of gender and nation in postcolonial writing about India./div
Author : Sangeeta Ray
Release : 2000-06-20
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 806/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis En-Gendering India by : Sangeeta Ray
Download or read book En-Gendering India written by Sangeeta Ray. This book was released on 2000-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts—primarily novels—produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism. Through her readings of works by writers including Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Harriet Martineau, Flora Annie Steel, Anita Desai, and Bapsi Sidhaa, Ray demonstrates that Indian women were presented as upper class and Hindu, an idealization that paradoxically served the needs of both colonial and nationalist discourses. The Indian nation’s goal of self-rule was expected to enable women’s full participation in private and public life. On the other hand, British colonial officials rendered themselves the protectors of passive Indian women against their “savage” male countrymen. Ray shows how the native woman thus became a symbol for both an incipient Indian nation and a fading British Empire. In addition, she reveals how the figure of the upper-class Hindu woman created divisions with the nationalist movement itself by underscoring caste, communal, and religious differences within the newly emerging state. As such, Ray’s study has important implications for discussions about nationalism, particularly those that address the concepts of identity and nationalism. Building on recent scholarship in feminism and postcolonial studies, En-Gendering India will be of interest to scholars in those fields as well as to specialists in nationalism and nation-building and in Victorian, colonial, and postcolonial literature and culture.
Author : Anindita Datta
Release : 2020-08-31
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 797/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gender, Space and Agency in India by : Anindita Datta
Download or read book Gender, Space and Agency in India written by Anindita Datta. This book was released on 2020-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the links between gender, space and agency in India. It offers fresh perspectives and frameworks within which these links can be analyzed across diverse geographical contexts in India. The chapters in this volume are based on field studies which showcase how agency is gendered. The volume examines how gender and agency are fashioned by a multitude of everyday contexts, socio-economic processes, policy interventions and geographic phenomenon and manifest in diffusion of education, decentralization of politics, rising social inequalities, poverty, green revolution, mechanization of agriculture and even drought. This book will be of interest to researchers, teachers and practitioners of human geography, social and cultural geography, and those interested in geographies of gender. It will also be helpful for policy makers interested in the issues of gender and development in India.
Author : Nibedita Mukherjee
Release : 2015-10-13
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Rating : 677/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gendering the Narrative by : Nibedita Mukherjee
Download or read book Gendering the Narrative written by Nibedita Mukherjee. This book was released on 2015-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of recent critical essays on aspects of gender discourse visible in Indian English fiction. The articles included here address the multiple aspects of gender identity and open up doors for a number of varied interpretations. The authors considered range from Saratchandra to R Raj Rao, from Jhabvala to Manju Kapur. The contributions investigate a range of features of gender discourse, including feminism, masculinity, and homosexuality. As such, the volume represents an indispensable companion to any scholar of gender studies interested in the perspectives provided by Indian English fiction.
Author : Amitava Chatterjee (Assistant professor of history)
Release : 2020-11-13
Genre : Gender identity
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Book Rating : 017/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Historicizing Gendered Modernities in India by : Amitava Chatterjee (Assistant professor of history)
Download or read book Historicizing Gendered Modernities in India written by Amitava Chatterjee (Assistant professor of history). This book was released on 2020-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how gender is central to our imagination and understanding of modernity. The essays in this volume unravel the complexities of modernity's relationship to femininity and the cultures of gender construction amidst the diverse manifestations of colonialism and nationalism. The essays cover varied aspects of gender identities, including the private spheres of elite women who expressed their freedom through their subversive, restricted sexuality, thus shaking off the shackles of domination; the debates regarding dress codes for women; the deplorable condition of girls after marriage; legislative battles to achieve the right to divorce; challenges to notions of sports as a masculine activity; the different meanings of modernity for women writers; the implications of print cultures and cinema on women; gendered meanings of peace and partition; women's preferences, perceptions and practices; the politics of resistance; and questions of agency and autonomy.
