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Women as subjects : South Asian histories /

by Kumar, Nita.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Feminist issues (Charlottesville, Va.): Publisher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994Description: 239 p. : 24 cm.ISBN: 081391521X; 0813915228.Subject(s): Women -- India -- Social conditions | Women -- India -- Economic conditions | Women's rights -- India | Feminism -- India
Contents:
Introduction / Nita Kumar -- 1. Gender, Violence and Power: Rajasthani Stories of Shakti / Ann Grodzins Gold -- 2. Women's Speech Genres, Kinship and Contradiction / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- 3. Between Two Worlds: Self-Construction and Self-Identity in the Writings of Three Ninteenth-Century Indian Christian Women / Leslie A. Flemming -- 4. Others Voices, Other Rooms: The View from the Zenana / Gail Minault -- 5. Killing My Heart's Desire: Education and Female Autonomy in Rural North India / Patrick Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- 6. Gender and Politics in Garhwal /William Sax -- 7. Oranges for the Girls, or, the Half-Known Story of the Education of Girls in Twentieth-Century Banaras / Nita Kumar.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nita Kumar -- 1. Gender, Violence and Power: Rajasthani Stories of Shakti / Ann Grodzins Gold -- 2. Women's Speech Genres, Kinship and Contradiction / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- 3. Between Two Worlds: Self-Construction and Self-Identity in the Writings of Three Ninteenth-Century Indian Christian Women / Leslie A. Flemming -- 4. Others Voices, Other Rooms: The View from the Zenana / Gail Minault -- 5. Killing My Heart's Desire: Education and Female Autonomy in Rural North India / Patrick Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- 6. Gender and Politics in Garhwal /William Sax -- 7. Oranges for the Girls, or, the Half-Known Story of the Education of Girls in Twentieth-Century Banaras / Nita Kumar.

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