Making the 'Woman'
eBook - ePub

Making the 'Woman'

Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th century India

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Making the 'Woman'

Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th century India

About this book

The book examines the representation of women, their agency and subjectivity and gender relations in 18th- and 19th-century India. The chapters in the volume interrogate notions and discourses of 'women' and 'gender' during the period, historically shaped by multiple and even competing actors, practices and institutions. They highlight the 'making of the woman' across a wide spectrum of subject areas, regions and roles and attempt to understand the contradictions and differences in social experiences and identity formations of women. The volume also deals with prevalent notions of masculinity and femininity, normative and non-conformist expressions of gender and sexual identity and epistemological concerns of gender, especially in its intersectional interplay with other axes of caste, class, race, region and empire.

Presenting unique understandings of our gendered pasts, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, gender studies and South Asian studies.

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Yes, you can access Making the 'Woman' by Sutapa Dutta,Shivangini Tandon in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Women in History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032609041
eBook ISBN
9781003817178
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Lists of Figures
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Foreword by Farhat Hasan
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. PART I: The Private and the Public Worlds
  13. PART II: Questioning the Normative
  14. PART III: The Problematic ‘Others’
  15. PART IV: Narratives of Femininity