Beyond purdah?: women in Bengal 1890-1939

by Engels, Dagmar

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Title Statements

Full title :Beyond purdah? : women in Bengal 1890-1939 / Dagmar Engels.

Summary

"By 1930, women in Bengal were visible in the public arena with their participation in the national movement. Could this public appearance be taken as proof of their breaking with traditional gender stereotypes?"--BOOK JACKET. "The author argues that 'purdah' in early-twentieth-century Bengal meant far more than secluding women behind veils and walls; it entailed an all-encompassing ideology and code of conduct based on female modesty which pervaded women's lives. Accordingly, women's political experience and participation, even if its significance can be established, needs to be deconstructed and contextualized by looking at a wider range of discourses. Women's political activities and their class-specific existence - as mothers, daughters, wives and widows - are thus examined not only to trace developments and differences, but also to identify the underlying hierarchy of concepts which worked to keep women of all classes in a position of general inferiority to their male counterparts."--BOOK JACKET. "This book will interest students of history, particularly gender history and social history, and feminists everywhere."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Delhi
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

Notes

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of London, 1987).

The Physical Object

Description:x, 282 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0195637208, 9780195637205
oclc:ocm35223343
LC Classification:HQ1744.B4
Dewey Decimal:305.4/0954/14

1. Purdah and Politics -- 2. Brides and Widows -- 3. Sexuality -- 4. The Politics of Childbirth -- 5. Women's Education -- 6. Women's Work in the Bengal Economy.

Subjects

15.75 history of Asia Bengal (India) -- Social conditions Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) -- Conditi… Bengale (Inde) -- Conditions sociales Bengale (Inde) -- Histoire Bengale (Inde) -- Politique et gouverne… Bengalen Femmes -- Conditions économiques. -- Be… Femmes -- Conditions économiques. -- Be… Femmes -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. -- Be… Femmes -- Histoire. -- Bengale Frau Geschichte 1890-1939 History India -- Bengal Purdah-systeem Social conditions Vrouwendiscriminatie Women Women -- Economic conditions