From the Seams of History
Essays on Indian Women (Gender/Women's Studies)
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Word Count
76,500 words, Guess
Page Count
306 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7394274M
- ISBN-139780195632262
- ISBN-100195632265
- OCLC Control Number34321075
- OCLC Control Number32394678
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- OCLC Control Numberisbn_0195632265
- Library of Congress Control Number95902018
- Goodreads6515332
Classifications
- LCCHQ1742 .F76 1995
Description
The ten essays which make up the body of this book are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines and weave a complex pattern of the experiences of women in India over the last one hundred years. The book departs from traditional historiography which has given inadequate attention to women, and in this sense From the Seams of History attempts to 'rewrite' history. Beginning with the debate on widow remarriage in Bengal and Haryana, the book moves on to examine how the new fashions in clothing of the Bengali 'gentlewomen' in the nineteenth century were tailored according to the values and anxieties of their dominant male counterparts. The argument of male domination is taken further in an essay demonstrating that male oppression of women in Indian society was in fact remarkably similar to that of the colonial masters.
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- From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women (Gender/Women's Studies)
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