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Author : Sankar Sen Gupta
Publisher : Calcutta : Indian Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Study of Women of Bengal written by Sankar Sen Gupta and published by Calcutta : Indian Publications. This book was released on 1970 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanghamitra Sen Chaudhuri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women and Politics written by Sanghamitra Sen Chaudhuri and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Study, In The Light Of West Bengal Experience Stresses That Women Are Still Second Class Citizen In Spite Of The Equal Rights Conferred On Them.
Author : Sankar Sen Gupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book A Study of Woman of Bengal written by Sankar Sen Gupta and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sudarshana Sen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040109586
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Women in Bengal written by Sudarshana Sen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the status of women in Bengal, India, by examining the versatile everyday living conditions of women, and how they are represented as individuals and as a category in the media. Contributors to the book start their discussion from the point that women in India have a varied experience of living, thinking, and acting specific to the regional cultural context. Caste ideology specified privileges and sanctions according to innate attributes, differ by sex as well as ethnicity, class, caste, minority status, and marginal position intersect lives and render unique life experiences. With a focus on women and their lived experiences, performances by them and performances imitating women’s roles, the book offers a complex and rich analysis of the reality of women’s lives based on research and reflections by 25 scholars. Organised into two sections, the book presents women in reality, their living conditions, struggles, and women as represented in films, stories, framed in plots sometimes by women and sometimes by men. The chapters provide insights on how institutionalised gender distinctions create subordination and marginality of women and their struggles to survive in a society dominated by heteropatriarchal ideology and its practice. This book improves our understanding of various dimensions of gender and transgender relations in India. It will be of interest to researchers in Gender Studies, South Asian Culture and Society, and Studies on India.
Author : Kristin Hanssen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135135759X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia written by Kristin Hanssen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted for their haunting melodies and enigmatic lyrics, Bauls have been portrayed as spiritually enlightened troubadours traveling around the countryside in West Bengal in India and in Bangladesh. As emblems of Bengali culture, Bauls have long been a subject of scholarly debates which center on their esoteric practices, and middle class imaginaries of the category Baul. Adding to this literature, the intimate ethnography presented in this book recounts the life stories of members from a single family, shining light on their past and present tribulations bound up with being poor and of a lowly caste. It shows that taking up the Baul path is a means of softening the stigma of their lower caste identity in that religious practice, where women play a key role, renders the body pure. The path is also a source of monetary income in that begging is considered part of their vocation. For women, the Baul path has the added implication of lessening constraints of gender. While the book describes a family of singers, it also portrays the wider society in which they live, showing how their lives connect and interlace with other villagers, a theme not previously explored in literature on Bauls. A novel approach to the study of women, the body and religion, this book will be of interest to undergraduates and graduates in the field of the anthropology. In addition, it will appeal to students of everyday religious lives as experienced by the poor, through case studies in South Asia. The book provides further evidence that renunciation in South Asia is not a uniform path, despite claims to the contrary. There is also a special interest in Bauls among those familiar with the Bengali speaking region. While this book speaks to that interest, its wider appeal lies in the light it sheds on religion, the body, life histories, and poverty.
Author : Jasodhara Bagchi
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761932420
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (324 download)
Download or read book The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000 written by Jasodhara Bagchi and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-01-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important and comprehensive volume vividly depicts the current status of women and girls in West Bengal. The analysis has been conducted in the framework of the socio-economic and politico-cultural ambience that has characterized the state in recent decades. The contributors highlight both areas of strength and vulnerability and clearly demonstrate that the status of women cannot be conceived as monolithic or static--it has many facets and is in a state of constant flux. The analysis of macro data is supported by revealing micro studies based on field surveys and an examination of cultural trends.
Author : Jayasri Ghosh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Political Participation of Women in West Bengal written by Jayasri Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samita Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521453631
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Women and Labour in Late Colonial India written by Samita Sen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
Author : Paulomi Chakraborty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199095396
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Refugee Woman written by Paulomi Chakraborty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.
Author : Maroona Murmu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199098212
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Words of Her Own written by Maroona Murmu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of Her Own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works authored by them. Based on a spectrum of genres—such as autobiographies, novels, and travelogues—this book examines the sociocultural incentives that enabled the dawn of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors at that time. Murmu explores the intersections of class, caste, gender, language, and religion in these works. Reading these texts within a specific milieu, Murmu sets out to rectify the essentialist conception of women’s writings being a monolithic body of works that displays a firmly gendered form and content, by offering rich insights into the complex world of subjectivities of women in colonial Bengal. In attempting to do so, this book opens up the possibility of reconfiguring mainstream history by questioning the scholarly conceptualization of patriarchy being omnipotent enough to shape the intricacies of gender relations, resulting in the flattening of self-fashioning by women writers. The book contends that there were women authors who flouted the norms of literary aesthetics and tastes set by male literati, thereby creating a literary tradition of their own in Bangla and becoming agents of history at the turn of the century.
Author : Aparna Bandyopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788125062356
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Desire and Defiance written by Aparna Bandyopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Srimati Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131730991X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema written by Srimati Mukherjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women’s roles in public and private spheres. Examining the work of three directors from West Bengal, this book addresses the juxtaposition of tradition and culture regarding women in Bengali cinema. It argues the antithesis of women’s roles, particularly in terms of ideas of resistance, revolution, change, and autonomy, by suggesting they convey resistance to hegemonic structures, encouraging a re-envisioning of women’s positions within the familial-social matrix. Along with presenting a perception of culture as dynamic and evolving, the book discusses how some directors show that with this rupturing of the traditionally prohibitive, and a notion of unmaking and making in women, a traditional inclination is exposed to align women with ideas of absence, substitution, and disposability. The author goes on to show how selected auteurs in contemporary Bengali cinema break with certain traditional representations of women, gesturing towards a culture that is more liberating for women. Presenting the first full-length study of women’s changing roles over the last twenty years of Bengali cinema, this book will be a useful contribution for students and scholars of South Asian Culture, Film Studies and Gender Studies.
Author : Margaret M. Urquhart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788190620543
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Women of Bengal written by Margaret M. Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret M Urquhart
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014416223
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Women of Bengal written by Margaret M Urquhart and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Margaret M. Urquhart
Publisher : Calcutta : Association Press (Y.M.C.A.)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women of Bengal written by Margaret M. Urquhart and published by Calcutta : Association Press (Y.M.C.A.). This book was released on 1925 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sonia Amin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004491406
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939 written by Sonia Amin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th- and 20th-century Bengal. Its frames of reference are the Bengal 'Awakening', the Reform Movements -- Brahmo/Hindi and Muslim -- and the Women's Question as articulated in material and ideological terms throughout the period. Tracing the emergence of the modern Muslim gentlewomen, the bhadramahilā, starting in 1876 when Nawab Faizunnesa Chaudhurani published her first book and ending with the foundation in 1939 of The Lady Brabourne College, the book gives an excellent analysis of the rise of a Muslim woman's public sphere and broadens our knowledge of Bengali social history in the colonial period.
Author : Dagmar Engels
Publisher : School of Oriental & African Studies University of London
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Beyond Purdah? written by Dagmar Engels and published by School of Oriental & African Studies University of London. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that 'purdah' in early-twentieth-century Bengal meant far more than secluding women behind veils and walls; it entailed an all-encompassing ideology and code of conduct based on female modesty which pervaded women's lives. Accordingly, women's political experience and participation, even if its significance can be established, needs to be deconstructed and contextualized by looking at a wider range of discourses.
