LEADER 04096nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910820362503321 005 20240417034223.0 010 $a0-7914-8385-1 010 $a1-4237-4371-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000458768 035 $a(OCoLC)76786431 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579052 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000154060 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137323 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154060 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10406559 035 $a(PQKB)10500451 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407629 035 $a(OCoLC)62750466 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6238 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407629 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579052 035 $a(DE-B1597)682128 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791483855 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000458768 100 $a20040226d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFemale infanticide in India$b[electronic resource] $ea feminist cultural history /$fRashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6327-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tThe Practice of Femicide in Postcolonial India and the Discourse of Population Control within the Nation State -- $tCenter and Periphery in British India: Post-Enlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room -- $tSocial Mobility in Relation to Female Infanticide in Rajput Clans: British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy -- $tA Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800?1854 -- $tA Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800?1854 -- $tSubaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition -- $tThe Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFemale 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. 606 $aInfant girls$xViolence against$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aInfanticide$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aWomen$xViolence against$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zIndia$xSocial conditions 606 $aFeminism$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xPopulation 607 $aIndia$xHistory$yBritish occupation, 1765-1947 615 0$aInfant girls$xViolence against$xHistory. 615 0$aInfanticide$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xViolence against$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aFeminism 676 $a392.1/2 700 $aBhatnagar$b Rashmi Dube$01615496 701 $aDube$b Renu$01615497 701 $aDube$b Reena$01615498 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820362503321 996 $aFemale infanticide in India$93945716 997 $aUNINA