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UNINA9910462685803321 |
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Autore |
Channa Subhadra <1951-> |
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Titolo |
Gender in South Asia : social imagination and constructed realities / / Subhadra Mitra Channa [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-316-15358-4 |
1-107-44104-8 |
1-107-42339-2 |
1-107-41896-8 |
1-107-42162-4 |
1-107-42026-1 |
1-107-41764-3 |
1-107-33880-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 28 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - India - Social conditions |
Women - India - History |
Feminism - India |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Colonial India and the construction of upper-caste/class women -- Elite women: education and emergence of feminism -- Work and gender relations of a low-caste group in urban Delhi -- Globalization and the emerging gender issues in India -- Conclusion: redefining the feminine. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and ethnographic materials forming a historical discourse. There is an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations across time and space. The readers are |
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