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Intimate landscapes : imagining femininity, family and home in Banaras, IndiaMeyer, Rachel Sherry 28 March 2011 (has links)
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Female infanticide in China and India: a comparative studyCampbell, Sarah Ann Sparks. January 2003 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Comparative Asian Studies / Master / Master of Arts
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Indian women in the house of fiction: place, gender, and identity in post-independence Indo-English novels by womenChanda, Geetanjali. January 1998 (has links)
published_or_final_version / English / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
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Hindu temple women of the Chola period in south IndiaOrr, Leslie C. January 1993 (has links)
This study examines the situation and activities of Hindu temple women (devadasis) in the 9th-13th centuries, as revealed in Tamil inscriptions. These temple women, unlike their male counterparts or the devadasis of more recent times, were not primarily identified as temple servants, with professional expertise or ritual responsibilities, but were instead defined with reference to a particular status, predicated on relationship with a temple. This relationship was secured through the donations that temple women made to temples. In the course of the Chola period, the status of "temple woman" became increasingly well-defined and the numbers of temple women increased, while other types of women disappeared from public view. Temple women's strengthening links with--but marginal positions in--the temple are analyzed in this study with reference to the changes that occurred during this period in the structure of the temple and in the temple's position within the social environment.
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Theologising with the sacred 'prostitutes' of South India : towards an indecent Dalit theologyParker, Eve Rebecca January 2016 (has links)
This thesis theologises with the contemporary devadāsīs of South India, focusing in particular on the Dalit girls who from childhood have been dedicated to the goddess Mathamma and used as village sex workers. Firstly, chapters one and two situate the context for theologising by outlining the discriminatory practice of caste and the place of the Dalits, noting in particular the plight of Dalit women. From here it explores the socioreligious identities of the contemporary devadāsīs that have been transformed and degraded as a result of a multitude of hegemonies, to the extent that the existential narratives of the contemporary devadāsīs are shaped by sexual violence, caste and gender discrimination, local village religiosity and sex work. And it is based upon such narratives that this research contemplates God. Chapter three suggests that there exists a lacuna in Indian Christian Theology and Dalit Liberation Theology for the voices and experiences of the most marginalised of Dalit women, in particular those whose narratives would be deemed “indecent”. In response, inspired by the Indecent Theology of Marcella Althaus- Reid, it suggests that in order to be truly identity-specific and liberating to the most marginalised of Dalit women, Dalit Liberation Theology must be born out of the sexual narratives of the oppressed. Chapter four therefore uses an Indecent Dalit feminist hermeneutic to re-read the narratives of the “harlots,” “concubines,” and “whores” of Scripture alongside the lived experiences of the Dalit sacred “prostitutes.” It does so in the hope of challenging patriarchal hegemonic Dalit Christian theologising that portrays the ‘decent' woman as godly, to the detriment of those who transgress heteronormative sexual moral orders. The final chapter goes on to further challenge Dalit Theology to discover the Dalit Christ in the context of the dedicated women – where we encounter a lived religiosity, that is shaped by religious hybridity, goddess worship and the Christ who has become a Dalit devi.
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Arche Tupi : uma leitura arquet?pica da mulher ?ndia em Casa-Grande & SenzalaFonseca, Gladson Paulo Milhomens 12 April 2010 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2010-04-12 / This dissertation is a proposal for dialogue between Brazilian Social Thought, History of Portuguese America and the Analytical Psychology of C.G. Jung, highlighting the following archetypes: Anima, Animus, Shadow and Persona. Directing the study to the image of Indian women in this Brazilian interpretation of Casa-Grande & senzala by Gilberto Freyre, have largely centered on denial of the feminine image as a creative and positive in the minds of Brazilian culture, where a more specific analysis. We assume that your work has inspired several bridges over imaginary things in Brazil, including aspects relating to miscegenation, the study of foreign travelers, Jesuits and settlers / invaders of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Portuguese disembarked in America and in this sense, the influence of his work as wasteful image through time and space of the Portuguese slave order. Above all, we intend to do a reading of Native women thought in his book / Esta disserta??o ? uma proposta de di?logo entre Pensamento Social Brasileiro, Hist?ria da Am?rica Portuguesa e a Psicologia Anal?tica de C.G. Jung, destacando os seguintes arqu?tipos: ?nima, Animus, Sombra e Persona. Direcionando o estudo para a imagem da mulher ?ndia, presente na interpreta??o brasileira de Casa-grande & senzala de Gilberto Freyre, temos como eixo principal a nega??o desta imagem enquanto princ?pio feminino criativo e positivo no imagin?rio cultural brasileiro, no caso de uma an?lise mais espec?fica. Partimos do pressuposto de que sua obra inspirou diversas pontes imagin?rias sobre o Brasil, inclusive nos aspectos referentes ? mesti?agem, no estudo sobre estrangeiros viajantes, jesu?tas e colonos/invasores dos s?culos XVI e XVII ao aportarem na Am?rica Portuguesa. Neste sentido, pretendemos enfatizar a influ?ncia de sua obra enquanto imagem perdul?ria atrav?s do tempo e do espa?o na ordem escravista portuguesa. Sobretudo, pretende-se fazer uma leitura do feminino ind?gena pensada em seu livro
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Educational journeys and everyday aspirations : making of 'kamil momina' in a girls' madrasaBorker, Hem January 2015 (has links)
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Hindu temple women of the Chola period in south IndiaOrr, Leslie C. January 1993 (has links)
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Making ladies of girls : middle-class women and pleasure in urban IndiaKrishnan, Sneha January 2014 (has links)
Current debates in the anthropology of the Indian middle classes suggest a preponderant theme of balance - between 'Indian' and 'Western'; 'traditional' and 'modern'; 'global' and 'local'. Scholars like Säävälä (2010) Nisbett (2007, 2009), and Donner (2011) demonstrate a range of practices through which the ideal of middle class life is positioned in a precarious median between the imagined decadence of the upper classes and the perceived immorality and lack of responsibility of the working classes. Sexuality and intimacy, it has been observed, are important sites, where this balancing act is played out and risks to its stability are disciplined. Young women have particularly come under a great deal of pressure to position themselves dually as modern representatives of a global nation, who are, at the same time, epitomes of a nationalised narrative of tradition. In this thesis I examine, through an ethnographic study, the ways in which young women's bodies are implicated in the normative reproduction of everyday middle class life, as well as unpacking the social meanings of youth and adulthood for women in this context. Further, locating my study in the context of women's colleges in Chennai, this thesis comments on the significance of educational spaces as sites where normative ideals of middle class life and femininity are both produced and contested. The chief arguments in this thesis are organised into five chapters that draw primarily on ethnographic material to examine categories of risk, danger and pleasure as mutually constituted in young women's lives through everyday practice, as well as the making of the everyday as a precarious and compositional event.
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Travelling home and empire British women in India, 1857-1939Blunt, Alison Mary 11 1900 (has links)
This study focuses on the British wives of civil servants and army officers who lived in India
from 1857 to 1939 to examine the translation of feminine discourses of bourgeois domesticity
over imperial space. Three questions form the subject of this research. First, how were cultures
of domesticity and imperialism intertwined in complex and often contradicatory ways over
space? Second, did imperial rule, and the travel that it necessarily implied, challenge or reinforce
the claim that 'there's no place like home'? Third, how and why were places both like and yet
unlike 'home' produced by British women living in India? I start by examining the 'mutiny' of
1857-1858 as a period of domestic and imperial crisis, focusing on representations of and by
British women at Cawnpore and Lucknow. Then, considering the place of British women in the
post-'mutiny' reconstruction of imperial domesticity in India, I focus on two scales: first, home
and empire-making on a household scale; and, second, seasonal travels by British women to hill
stations in North India. In their travels both to and within India, British women embodied
contested discourses of imperial domesticity.
Throughout, I focus on the mobile, embodied subjectivities of memsahibs. While
imperial histories have often neglected the roles played by British women in India, revisionist
accounts have often reproduced stereotypical and / or celebratory accounts of memsahibs. In
contrast, I examine the ambivalent basis of imperial and gendered stereotypes and conceptualise
spatialised subjectivities in terms of embodiment, critical mobility, and material performativity.
As members of an official elite, the British wives of civil servants and army officers came to
embody many of the connections and tensions between domesticity and imperialism. Both
during and after the 'mutiny,' the place of British women and British homes in India was
contested. The place of British women and British homes in India reveal contradictions at the
heart of imperial rule by reproducing and yet destabilizing imperial rule on a domestic scale
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