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Gender Relations in Early India

Author : Vinita Chandra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788131603796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Gender Relations in Early India written by Vinita Chandra and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the existing myths regarding the historical views of women in India: (a) that women in early India were a homogenous category; (b) that the dharmauastras (ancient scripture on code of conduct) are the foundational documents of 'Hindu' way of life, responsible for tightening the noose around the lives of women in India; and (c) that the dharmauastras are the representative texts of Indian tradition, seeking to protect Indian women under specific historical circumstances. The book also argues that gender relations were shaped and manifested differently across different regions and cultures in early India, and that the dharmauastras may neither be considered as "foundational documents" nor can they be considered as "representative texts" of Indian tradition. The dharmauastras were only one of the many genres of literature produced in ancient India.

The Making of Womanhood

Author : Dr. Shalini Shah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788173049774
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Womanhood written by Dr. Shalini Shah and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Early Indian Societies

Author : Kumkum Roy
Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
ISBN 13 : 9788173043826
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Women in Early Indian Societies written by Kumkum Roy and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women In Early Indian Societies Is An Anthology Of Articles And Excerpts From Leading Works On The Theme. There Is A Special Focus On Issues And Perspectives In Historical Writings, On The Material Underpinnings Of Gender Relations, Socio-Sexual Construction Of Gender And The Complex Relationship Between Women And Religious Traditions. The Introductory Essay And Bibliography Contextualise The Themes Which Are Explored And Suggest Possibilities For Future Research.

The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power

Author : Kumkum Roy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power written by Kumkum Roy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers mostly presented at various seminars; some previously published.

Women, Gender and History in India

Author : Nita Kumar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000898202
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender and History in India written by Nita Kumar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Gender and History in India examines Indian history through a thematic lens of women and gender across different contexts. Through an inter-disciplinary approach, Nita Kumar uses sources from literature, folklore, religion, and art to discuss historical and anthropological ways of interpreting the issues surrounding women and gender in history. As part of the scholarly movement away from a Grand Narrative of South Asian history and culture, this volume places emphasis on the diversity of women and their experiences. It does this by including analyses of many different primary sources together with discussion around a wide variety of theoretical and methodological debates – from the mixed role of colonial law and education to the conundrum of a patriarchy that worships the Goddess while it strives to keep women in subservience. This textbook is essential reading for those studying Indian history and women and gender studies.

Gender in Modern India

Author : Lata Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198900805
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Gender in Modern India written by Lata Singh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender in Modern India brings together pioneering research on a range of themes including social reforms, caste, and contestations; Adivasis, patriarchy, and colonialism; capitalism, political economy, and labour; masculinity and sexuality; health, medical care, and institution building; culture and identity; and migration and its new dynamics. Commissioned in remembrance of the prolific social historian Biswamoy Pati, this volume examines the gender question through a multilayered and multi-dimensional frame in which interdisciplinarity and intersectionality play an important role. Using case studies on gender from diverse geographies?east, west, north, south, and northeast; community locations?Hindu, Muslim, and Christian; and marginalized socio-economic or ethnic habitations such as those of Dalits and Adivasis, the contributors highlight the complexities and diversities of women's negotiations of patriarchies in varied social, ethnic, and community contexts. Collectively, the chapters in this volume focus on three related and overlapping settings?colonial, colonial and postcolonial continuum, and postcolonial. They delineate the multiple lives of gender by focusing on its intersections with other markers of difference including race, class, caste, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, region, and occupation, thereby questioning stereotypes, challenging dated notions and interpretations of gender, and demonstrating the ubiquity of patriarchy.

Festivals, Feasts, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece

Author : Yiqun Zhou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490400
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Festivals, Feasts, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece written by Yiqun Zhou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West comparison. This book examines gender relations in the two ancient societies as reflected in convivial contexts such as family banquets, public festivals, and religious feasts. Two distinct patterns of interpersonal affinity and conflict emerge from the Chinese and Greek sources that show men and women organising themselves and interacting with each other in social occasions intended for collective pursuit of pleasure. Through an analysis of the two different patterns, Yiqun Zhou illuminates the different socio-political mechanisms, value systems, and fabrics of human bonds in the two classical traditions. Her book will be important for readers who are interested in the comparative study of societies, gender studies, women's history, and the legacy of civilisations.

Beyond the Women in Question

Author : Kumkum Roy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789384092771
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Women in Question written by Kumkum Roy and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the 'Woman Question' both revisits and interrogates some of the central tenets of the 'woman question' as it emerged in colonial India and shaped (and continues to shape) subsequent historiography. These include issues of women's access to resources, ritual 'rights', and locations within the family, primarily relating to an unmarked category of upper-caste/class women. In terms of chronology, the essays range from the mid-first millennium BCE to the turn of the first/ second millennium CE. Spatially, they deal with regions as diverse as Kashmir, and parts of north and central India. Using a wide range of sources--inscriptional and visual as well as normative and narrative texts--this book contends that gender identities were not monolithic, even as elite women seem to be the most visible/accessible. The issues explored include participation in gift exchanges and their economic, social, political and cultural significance; the construction of gender identities through rituals; and the representation of gender relations in literary traditions. Collectively, the volume contributes to the growing body of historical research on gender relations in early India.

Beyond the Women in Question: Reconstructing Gendered Identities in Early India

Author : Kumkum Roy
Publisher : Ratna Sagar
ISBN 13 : 9789384092788
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Women in Question: Reconstructing Gendered Identities in Early India written by Kumkum Roy and published by Ratna Sagar. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the 'Woman Question' both revisits and interrogates some of the central tenets of the 'woman question' as it emerged in colonial India and shaped (and continues to shape) subsequent historiography. These include issues of women's access to resources, ritual 'rights', and locations within the family, primarily relating to an unmarked category of upper-caste/class women. In terms of chronology, the essays range from the mid-first millennium BCE to the turn of the first/ second millennium CE. Spatially, they deal with regions as diverse as Kashmir, and parts of north and central India. Using a wide range of sources--inscriptional and visual as well as normative and narrative texts--this book contends that gender identities were not monolithic, even as elite women seem to be the most visible/accessible. The issues explored include participation in gift exchanges and their economic, social, political and cultural significance; the construction of gender identities through rituals; and the representation of gender relations in literary traditions. Collectively, the volume contributes to the growing body of historical research on gender relations in early India.

Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata

Author : Simon Brodbeck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113411995X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata written by Simon Brodbeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. At almost 75,000 verses it is the longest poem in the world, and throughout Indian history it has been hugely influential in shaping gender and social norms. In the context of ancient India, it is the definitive cultural narrative in the construction of masculine, feminine and alternative gender roles. This book brings together many of the most respected scholars in the field of Mahabharata studies, as well as some of its most promising young scholars. By focusing specifically on gender constructions, some of the most innovative aspects of the Mahabharata are highlighted. Whilst taking account of feminist scholarship, the contributors see the Mahabharata as providing an opportunity to frame discussion of gender in literature not just in terms of the socio-historical roles of men and women. Instead they analyze the text in terms of the wider poetic and philosophical possibilities thrown up by the semiotics of gendering. Consequently, the book bridges a gap in text-critical methodology between the traditional philological approach and more recent trends in gender and literary theory. Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata will be appreciated by readers interested in South Asian studies, Hinduism, religious studies and gender studies.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Women Through the Ages: The middle ages

Author : Simmi Jain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178351162
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Indian Women Through the Ages: The middle ages written by Simmi Jain and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India

Author : Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783082690
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India written by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations have played out at the level of everyday life to influence the lives of Indian women, and gender relations more broadly. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the authors portray the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change. ‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ moves the debate on gender and social transformation into the domain of everyday life to arrive at locally embedded and detailed, ethnographically informed analyses of gender relations in real-life contexts that foreground both subtle and not-so-subtle negotiations and contestations.

Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India

Author : Uma Chakravarti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189524876
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India written by Uma Chakravarti and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Comparison Between Women and Men

Author : Rosalind O'Hanlon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comparison Between Women and Men written by Rosalind O'Hanlon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1882, Tarabai Shinde's A Comparison between Women and Men is an invaluable first-hand source for the way colonial rule shaped Indian women's and gender history. Beautifully translated here by Rosalind O'Hanlon, her text is joined by a substantial interpretive essay linking it to broader issues in the Indian women's movement.

Gender in World History

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415223119
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Gender in World History written by Peter N. Stearns and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated to include with new chapters, this is second edition is a fascinating exploration of what happens to established ideads about men and women, and their roles, when different cultural systems come into contact.

Women and the Purāṇic Tradition in India

Author : Monika Saxena
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138286412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and the Purāṇic Tradition in India by : Monika Saxena

Download or read book Women and the Purāṇic Tradition in India written by Monika Saxena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the diverse ways in which women have been represented in the Purāṇic traditions in ancient India - the virtuous wife, mother, daughter, widow, and prostitute - against the socio-religious milieu around CE 300-1000. Purāṇas (lit. ancient narratives) are brahmanical texts that largely fall under the category of socio-religious literature which were more broad-based and inclusive, unlike the Smṛtis, which were accessible mainly to the upper sections of society. In locating, identifying, and commenting on the multiplicity of the images and depictions of women's roles in Purāṇic traditions, the author highlights their lives and experiences over time, both within and outside the traditional confines of the domestic sphere. With a focus on five Mahāpurāṇas that deal extensively with the social matrix Viṣṇu, Mārkaṇḍeya Matsya, Agni, and Bhāgavata Purāṇas, the book explores the question of gender and agency in early India and shows how such identities were recast, invented, shaped, constructed, replicated, stereotyped, and sometimes reversed through narratives. Further, it traces social consequences and contemporary relevance of such representations in marriage, adultery, ritual, devotion, worship, fasts, and pilgrimage. This volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars in women and gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, sociology, literature, and South Asian studies, as also the informed general reader.

Women and Society in Early Medieval India

Author : Anjali Verma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429826427
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Women and Society in Early Medieval India written by Anjali Verma and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines women and society in India during 600–1200 CE through epigraphs. It offers an analysis of inscriptional data at the pan-India level to explore key themes, including early marriage, deprivation of girls from education, property rights, widowhood and satī, as well as women in administration and positions of power. The volume also traces gender roles and agency across religions such as Hinduism and Jainism, the major religions of the times, and sheds light on a range of political, social, economic and religious dimensions. A panoramic critique of contradictions and conformity between inscriptional and literary sources, including pieces of archaeological evidence against traditional views on patriarchal stereotypes, as also regional parities and disparities, the book presents an original understanding of women’s status in early medieval South Asian society. Rich in archival material, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of ancient and medieval Indian history, social history, archaeology, epigraphy, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies and South Asian studies.