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Gender and Modernity
Published by
Setu Prakashani, 2015
ISBN 10: 938067774X
ISBN 13: 9789380677743
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Seller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Men will be men? The discourse on masculinity in 21st century Indian print media/Debraj Bhattacharya. 2. Forgotten lands, Forsaken men: provincialism, partition and Sylheti Government Servants in post-partition Assam/Binayak Dutta. 3. Situating the icons of the Hindu right/Namrata R. Ganneri. 4. Gendering women sporting culture in colonial Bengal: a historical perspective/Amitava Chatterjee. 5. Technologies of revolution and the inaccomodable feminine in colonial and postcolonial Bengal/Samrat Senguta. 6. Discourses of Grihashram and the self-making of the woman/Anirban Bhattacharjee. 7. Divorce in colonial India/Bhaswati Chatterjee. 8. Custom, rights and identiy: Adivasi women's land rights in Eastern India/Sanjukta Das Gupta. 9. Kerala renaissance and the women's question/Sreejith K. 10. Jibaner Jharapata: Re-membering autobiography into the nation/Ritu Sen Chaudhuri. 11. Kahake: Swarnakumari Debi's literary resistance?/Maroona Murmu. 12. Beauty, body and media: how to be modern and complete/Koushiki Dasgupta. 13. The silence of the lambs: re-negotiating the bollywood heroine in public/ Aparajita De. 14. Cultural construction of gender in colonial Bengal: the Sari and the Bengali Nari: a Dress code/Mahua Sarkar. This edited volume comprises of articles on gender in colonial and post-colonial India. It brings forward women assertion and masculinity in historical perspective in the light of modernity. The impact of advertisement and partition on masculinity, the mobilization of women under saffron politics, equal rights of adivasi women over land, divorce in colonial India has added dimension on the subject. The text explores how notions of modernity and being modern have produced and still continues to reproduce constructs of gender, gender relations and its representations. The discourse will imbue the readers to think a new. Seller Inventory # 115207
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