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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136592303321

Titolo

Women and work in precolonial India : a reader / / edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : SAGE, , 2016

ISBN

93-5150-741-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (485 p.)

Disciplina

331.40954

Soggetti

Women - India - History

Occupations - India - History

Women - India - Social conditions

Women - India - Economic conditions

Electronic books.

India History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 20: Gender, Caste and Labour: Ideological and Material Structure of WidowhoodChapter 21: Work and Gender in Mughal India; Section V: Devaradiya: Hand-maidens of God or Sex-workers?; Chapter 22: Courtesans; Chapter 23: Temple Women as Temple Servants; Chapter 24 In the Business of Kama: Prostitution in the Classical Sanskrit Literature from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Centuries; Prostitution in Ancient India; About the Editor and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

A compilation of ancient Indian texts with feminist perspectives on women's work.