Women and work in precolonial India: a reader

by Vijaya Ramaswamy

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Title Statements

Full title :Women and work in precolonial India : a reader / edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SAGE
Place of Publication:Los Angeles
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxv, 446 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789351507413, 9351507416
oclc:ocn953224440
LC Classification:HQ1147.I4
Dewey Decimal:305.40954

Section I: Women and the Household: Canonical Prescriptions and Their Feminist Critique -- Chapter 1: The Daily Duties of Women -- Chapter 2: Position and Status of Women in the Upaniṣads -- Chapter 3: Woman in the Household -- Chapter 4: Economic Rights of Ancient Indian Women -- Chapter 5: Dynamics of Women's Work in the Śāstric Sources: Household and Beyond -- Chapter 6: Tracking Economic Transitions: Tamil Women from Tribe to Caste and Changing Production Roles -- Chapter 7: The Question of Women's 'Agency': Women, Work and Domesticity in Early Textual Traditions

Section II: Women and Work in Early Textual Traditions -- Chapter 8: The Woman Worker -- Chapter 9: Of Dasas and Karmakaras: Servile Labour in Ancient India -- Chapter 10: Women and Work in Kautilīya's Arthaśāstra

Section III: Women and Economic Resources: Women's Property Rights -- Chapter 11: Proprietary Rights during Coverture -- Chapter 12: Proprietary Rights: Inheritance and Partition -- Chapter 13: The Legal Status of Women: Their Right of Inheritance -- Chapter 14: Property Rights of Women in Ancient India -- Chapter 15: Turmeric Land: Women's Property Rights in Tamil Society since Early Medieval Times -- Cha…

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Arbeit Börngen, . Devadasi Eigentum Erbrecht Femmes -- Conditions économiques. -- In… Femmes -- Conditions sociales. -- Inde Femmes -- Histoire. -- Inde History Inde -- Histoire India India -- History Indien occupations Occupations -- History. -- India Professions -- Histoire. -- Inde Prostitution Women Women -- Economic conditions Women -- Economic conditions. -- India