04073nam 2200721Ia 450 991082036250332120200520144314.00-7914-8385-11-4237-4371-7(CKB)1000000000458768(OCoLC)76786431(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579052(SSID)ssj0000154060(PQKBManifestationID)11137323(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154060(PQKBWorkID)10406559(PQKB)10500451(MiAaPQ)EBC3407629(OCoLC)62750466(MdBmJHUP)muse6238(Au-PeEL)EBL3407629(CaPaEBR)ebr10579052(DE-B1597)682128(DE-B1597)9780791483855(EXLCZ)99100000000045876820040226d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFemale infanticide in India a feminist cultural history /Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20051 online resource (335 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6327-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.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 -- IndexFemale Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters.Infant girlsViolence againstIndiaHistoryInfanticideIndiaHistoryWomenViolence againstIndiaHistoryWomenIndiaSocial conditionsFeminismIndiaIndiaPopulationIndiaHistoryBritish occupation, 1765-1947Infant girlsViolence againstHistory.InfanticideHistory.WomenViolence againstHistory.WomenSocial conditions.Feminism392.1/2Bhatnagar Rashmi Dube1615496Dube Renu1615497Dube Reena1615498MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820362503321Female infanticide in India3945716UNINA