03415nam 22006972 450 991077933390332120151005020622.01-107-23749-11-139-85437-21-139-84614-01-139-84293-51-139-84056-81-139-84529-21-139-34331-91-283-83635-11-139-84174-2(CKB)2550000000708961(EBL)1057548(OCoLC)818883471(SSID)ssj0000759292(PQKBManifestationID)11451006(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759292(PQKBWorkID)10782282(PQKB)11749106(UkCbUP)CR9781139343312(MiAaPQ)EBC1057548(Au-PeEL)EBL1057548(CaPaEBR)ebr10628036(CaONFJC)MIL414885(OCoLC)818658324(EXLCZ)99255000000070896120120309d2013|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierComing of age in nineteenth-century India the girl-child and the art of playfulness /Ruby Lal[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2013.1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-52134-3 1-107-03024-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prelude: opening the door -- 1. Texts, spaces, histories -- 2. The woman of the forest -- 3. The woman of the school -- 4. The woman of the household -- 5. The woman of the rooftops -- A retrospect: in pursuit of playfulness.In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century remained agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household, and rooftops.WomenIndiaSocial life and customs19th centuryGirlsIndiaSocial life and customs19th centuryDomestic relationsIndiaHistory19th centuryWomenSocial life and customsGirlsSocial life and customsDomestic relationsHistory305.235/2095409034HIS017000bisacshLal Ruby1559521UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910779333903321Coming of age in nineteenth-century India3824745UNINA