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UNINA9910820362503321 |
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Autore |
Bhatnagar Rashmi Dube |
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Titolo |
Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history / / Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-8385-1 |
1-4237-4371-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (335 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Infant girls - Violence against - India - History |
Infanticide - India - History |
Women - Violence against - India - History |
Women - India - Social conditions |
Feminism - India |
India Population |
India History British occupation, 1765-1947 |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Practice of Femicide in Postcolonial India and the Discourse of Population Control within the Nation State -- Center and Periphery in British India: Post-Enlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room -- Social Mobility in Relation to Female Infanticide in Rajput Clans: British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy -- A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800–1854 -- A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800–1854 -- Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition -- The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in |
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