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Title
: Gender, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods
Author :
Maithreyi Krishnaraj (ed.)
Publisher :
Stree
Year :
2007
Pages :
380
Contents .: Foreword Preface. Introduction. List of
Contributions. Part I. Perspectives: 1. The
Feminization of Agriculture and the Marginalization of Women's Economic
Sstake 1 2. Food Security, Agrarian Crisis and Rural Livelihoods:
Implications for Women. 3. Agricultural Diversification and Poverty
Reduction: Mainstreaming Women. 4. Commercialization, Commodification
and Gender Relations in Post-Harvest Systems of Rice in South Asia. 5.
Rendering Livelihoods Insecure: Dowry and Female Seclusion in Left
Developmental Contexts: West Bengal and Kerala. 6. Land Rights, Gender
Equality and Household Food Security: Exploring the Conceptual Links in
the Case of India. II. Regional Insights: 7. Livelihood
Patterns and Food Security: Some Case Studies from Maharashtra. 8.
Attaining Food and Nutritional Security in Rajasthan: Some Gender
Concerns. 9. The Gendered Context of Vulnerability: Coping/Adapting to
Floods in Eastern India. 10. Labour Out-Migration, Livelihood of Rice
Farming Households and Women Left Behind: a Case Study in Eastern Uttar
Pradesh. 11. Can an Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Livelihood
and Food Security. Index. |
"Agriculture
in India is in crisis with the out-migration of men from farming
to towns, cities or other rural areas in search of work, leaving
the running of farms to women. The resulting 'feminization' has
ominous implications for food security and rural livelihoods.
Women seem to be in a no-win situation where work burdens and
responsibilities have inclusive without enhancement of
productivity or earnings. While the economic importance of land
has declined (its contribution to the gross national product has
been reduced), it still employs the great majority of the
population who are unskilled, overburdened and malnourished.
This book is
divided into two parts; part I, perspectives, examines
conceptual and macro issues; part II, regional insights,
presents field studies, discussing the day-to-day implications
of the crisis. Part I begins with Swarna Vepa's analysis of
women's contributions in the agrarian sector (crop production,
raising livestock, fisheries, water conservation, collection of
fuel and fodder), which exceed that of men. In the next chapter,
Maithreyi Krishnaraj explains that 'livelihood is about people,
their capabilities and their means of living including food,
income and assets'. Amita Shah recommends as shift from crops to
horticulture and dairy, coupled with investment and ownership of
assets, which could let women become the prime movers of
agricultural growth.
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Title :
The Dancing Girls of
Lahore: Selling Love
and Saving
Dreams in Pakistan’s Ancient Pleasure District
Author
: Louise Brown
Publisher :
Fourth Estate
Year
: 2005
Pages :
311
Contents : Prologue.
1. “We Were Artists….Not Gandi Kanjari”. 2. A Prostitute with
Honor. 3. “Big Love Big Money”. 4. Ankle Bells and Shia Blades.
5. Child Bride of a Monsoon Wedding. 6. Dancing Daughters. 7.
Old Ways: New Fortunes. 8. Pakeezah-Pure Heart. Afterword.
Glossary of Urdu and Punjabi Words. Index.
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The Dancing
Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a
great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls
of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Through
their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the
dancing girls have an illustrious history. Beloved by emperors
and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of
Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its
love of gaudy spectacle, music and dance, is their distant
legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one
now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is
forbidden by Islam, through tolerated, but they are gandi,
“unclean” and Maha’s daughters, like her are born into the
business and will not leave it.
Sociologist
Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the
family life of a Lahori dancing girl. With beautiful
understatement, she turns a novelist’s eye on a true story that
baggers the imagination. Maha, a classically trained dancer of
exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to a powerful Arab
sheikh at the age of twelve; when her own daughter Nene comes of
age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a
terrible decision as the agents of the sheikh come calling once
more. [from the back cover]
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Title :
In Amma’s Healing
Room: Gender and Vernacular
Islam in South Asia
Author :
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Publsher
:Orient Longman
Year :
2008
Pages :294
Contents : Preface. Acknowledgements. A Note on
Translation. Introduction: Called to Amma’s Courtyard. 1. Setting
the Stage: The Healing Room, Its Actors, and Its Rhythems. 2. The
Healing System. 3. Patient Narratives in the Healing Room. 4.
Negotiating Gender in the Healing Room. 5. Religious Identities at the
Crossroads. 6. Immersed in Remembrance and Song: Religious Identities,
Authority, and Gender at the Sama. Conclusion: Vernacular Islam
Embedded in Relationships. Epilogue. Appendix: Death and Difference:
A Conversation. Glossary. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. |
In Amma’s
Healing Room is a vivid and compelling study of the life and
thought of a female Muslim spiritual leader - ‘Amma’ to her
family and disciples – who lives and practices in the city of
Hyderabad in South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes
Amma’s practice as a form of vernacular Islam that has arisen in
a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between
Islam, Hinduism and Christianity are fluid. In the “healing
room” Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men as well
as women, and people of various religious and social
backgrounds. Seated at a small table, writing amulets in Arabic
while her husband, “Amma” himself a Sufi master, operates a
small store catering to the waiting crowd, amma advises her
disciples, who come to her with a wide range of physical, social
and psychological afflictions. Even as she declares that the
most important distinction among humans is that of gender, not
religion, Amma crosses those boundaries to practice in a
traditionally male ritual role, and must continually recreate
and maintain her authority as healer to “meet the public’.
[from the back cover]
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Title
:Sex and the Family in Colonial
India:
The Making of Empire
Author :Durba
Ghosh
Publisher
:Cambridge University Press
Year :2006
Pages :277
Contents : Acknowledgements.
Introduction. 1. Colonial Companians. 2. Residing with Begums:
Williams Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their “Wives”. 3. Good
Patriarchs, Uncommon Families. 4. Native Women, Native Lives. 5.
Household Order and Colonial Justice. 6. Servicing Military Families:
Family Labor, Pensions, and Orphans. Conclusions. Bibliography.
Index. |
In the early
years of the British empire, cohabitation between Indian women
and British men was commonplace and to some degree toleratedt.
However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a challenge to the existing
historiography, anxieties about social status, appropriate
sexuality, and the question of who could be counted as “British”
or “Indian” were constant concerns of the colonial government
even at this time. By following the stories of a number of mixed
race families, at all levels of the social scale, from
high-ranking officials and nobelwomen to rank-and-file soldiers
and camp followers, and also the activities of indigenous female
concubines, mistresses, and wives, the author offers a
fascinating account of how gender, class, and race affected the
colonial, social and even political mores of the period. This
book makes an original and signal contribution to scholarship on
colonialism, gender, and sexuality. [from the back cover]
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Title
: Woman and Self: Autobiographies of
Amrita Pritam, Kamala Das, Jean Rhys
Author :
Bhagyashree Varma
Publisher
: Prestige
Year : 2007
Pages : 288
Contents : Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Autobiography
as a Literary Genre. 2. Autobiography: A Historical Perspective. 3.
Amrita Pritam and The Revenue Stamp. 4. Kamala Das and My Story.
5. Jean Rhys and Smile, Please. 6. Conclusions. Appendix.
Bibliography.
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Autobiography is one of the most appealing forms of writing
today. It is remarkable that so many women writers have tried to
satisfy their urge for self-identity by writing autobiography.
The present volume examines the autobiographies of three major
writers: Amrita Pritam, Kamala Das, and Jean Rhys. The affinity
of gender experience brings them closer to each other and offers
the readers a deep insight into the female mind. The book
purports to make a rich contribution to the areas of feminism,
comparative literarure and autobiography.
[from the back cover]
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Title :
Women and Social Reform in Modern
India : A Reader
Author :
Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar (eds.)
Publsher :
Permanent Black
Year :
2007
Pages :
V.1. 465p.’ V.2. 385p.
Contents :Vol. I: Introduction. Part A. Historical
Research . 1. Whose Sati?: Widow Burning in Early-Nineteenth-Century
India. 2. .Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in
Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal. 3. Education for Women. 4. Law,
Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of
1856. 5. Caste, Widow-Remarriage, and the Reform of Popular Culture in
Colonial Bengal. 6. Vdyasagar and Brahmanical Society. 7. Customs
in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana. 8. Silencing Heresy.
9. The Daughter of Aryavarta. 10. Viresalingam and the Ideology of
Social Change in Andhra. 11. Conjugality and Hindu
Nationalism:Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife.
12. Rebellious Wives and Dysfunctional Marriages: Indian Women's
Discourses and Participation in the Debates Over Restitution of Conjugal
Rights and the Child Marriage Controversy in the 1880s and 1890s.
Vol. II:
13.
Punjab and the North-West. 14. Muslim Women and the Control of
Property in North India. 15. Prize-Winning Adab: a Study of
five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette
Notification. 16. Sayyid Mumtaz 'Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's
Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu. 17. Gender and the
Politics of Space: the Movement for Women's Reform, 1857-1900. 18.
Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement C. 1925-1948. 19.
Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Malabar. 20. Women and Gender in the
Study of Tribes in India. 21. The 'Second Women's War' and the
Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur. 22. Gender in the
critique of colonisim and nationalism: locating the 'Indian Woman. 23.
Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu code: a victory of symbol over
substance. Part B. Contemporary Documents. 24. Tracts against
Sati. 25. The woeful plight of Hindu women. 26. From Stripurusha
Tulana. 27. From miscellaneous writings. 28. The worship of
women. Copyright statement. |
"The subject
of social reforms has routinely formed a part of Indian history
texts. The word 'reforms' normally conjures up the names of a
few great individuals, invariably Hindu: upper-caste educated
men from metropolitan cities, and one or two memorable women.
This galaxy of remarkable persons identified and abolished
abuses in social life, and their efforts brought about more
progressive gender relations.The editors of the present work
argue the need to understand the history of social reforms from
a much wider array of perspectives: for example, the connections
between specific social abuses on the one hand, and, on the
other, systems or traditions of gender practices across times,
classes, castes, and regions. For instance, when we look at
widow immolation or widow remarriage practices, we need to look
also at the larger domain of gender relations which sanctified
immolation or which outlawed widow remarriage: what arguments
were used? What aspects of these practices did the reformers
ignore? How did Orthodox practitioners defend such
traditions?There are also, the editors argue, other curious
omissions in the existing literature: 'Most reforms passed
through the grid of state legislation. Yet, there is little
engagement even with the law-making machinery.... and far less
with the judicial courts that enforced the laws and dealt with
disputes around the new laws'.Such omissions are addressed, and
many interesting questions raised and discussed, in this
impressive collection of writings." [from the back cover]
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Title :
Women and Social Reform in Modern
India : A Reader
Author :
Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar (eds.)
Publsher :
Permanent Black
Year :
2007
Pages :
V.1. 465p.’ V.2. 385p.
Contents :Vol. I: Introduction. Part A. Historical
Research . 1. Whose Sati?: Widow Burning in Early-Nineteenth-Century
India. 2. .Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in
Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal. 3. Education for Women. 4. Law,
Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of
1856. 5. Caste, Widow-Remarriage, and the Reform of Popular Culture in
Colonial Bengal. 6. Vdyasagar and Brahmanical Society. 7. Customs
in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana. 8. Silencing Heresy.
9. The Daughter of Aryavarta. 10. Viresalingam and the Ideology of
Social Change in Andhra. 11. Conjugality and Hindu
Nationalism:Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife.
12. Rebellious Wives and Dysfunctional Marriages: Indian Women's
Discourses and Participation in the Debates Over Restitution of Conjugal
Rights and the Child Marriage Controversy in the 1880s and 1890s.
Vol. II:
13.
Punjab and the North-West. 14. Muslim Women and the Control of
Property in North India. 15. Prize-Winning Adab: a Study of
five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette
Notification. 16. Sayyid Mumtaz 'Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's
Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu. 17. Gender and the
Politics of Space: the Movement for Women's Reform, 1857-1900. 18.
Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement C. 1925-1948. 19.
Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Malabar. 20. Women and Gender in the
Study of Tribes in India. 21. The 'Second Women's War' and the
Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur. 22. Gender in the
critique of colonisim and nationalism: locating the 'Indian Woman. 23.
Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu code: a victory of symbol over
substance. Part B. Contemporary Documents. 24. Tracts against
Sati. 25. The woeful plight of Hindu women. 26. From Stripurusha
Tulana. 27. From miscellaneous writings. 28. The worship of
women. Copyright statement. |
"The subject
of social reforms has routinely formed a part of Indian history
texts. The word 'reforms' normally conjures up the names of a
few great individuals, invariably Hindu: upper-caste educated
men from metropolitan cities, and one or two memorable women.
This galaxy of remarkable persons identified and abolished
abuses in social life, and their efforts brought about more
progressive gender relations.The editors of the present work
argue the need to understand the history of social reforms from
a much wider array of perspectives: for example, the connections
between specific social abuses on the one hand, and, on the
other, systems or traditions of gender practices across times,
classes, castes, and regions. For instance, when we look at
widow immolation or widow remarriage practices, we need to look
also at the larger domain of gender relations which sanctified
immolation or which outlawed widow remarriage: what arguments
were used? What aspects of these practices did the reformers
ignore? How did Orthodox practitioners defend such
traditions?There are also, the editors argue, other curious
omissions in the existing literature: 'Most reforms passed
through the grid of state legislation. Yet, there is little
engagement even with the law-making machinery.... and far less
with the judicial courts that enforced the laws and dealt with
disputes around the new laws'.Such omissions are addressed, and
many interesting questions raised and discussed, in this
impressive collection of writings." [from the back cover]
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Title :
Women and Social Reform in Modern
India : A Reader
Author :
Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar (eds.)
Publsher :
Permanent Black
Year :
2007
Pages :
V.1. 465p.’ V.2. 385p.
Contents :Vol. I: Introduction. Part A. Historical
Research . 1. Whose Sati?: Widow Burning in Early-Nineteenth-Century
India. 2. .Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in
Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal. 3. Education for Women. 4. Law,
Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of
1856. 5. Caste, Widow-Remarriage, and the Reform of Popular Culture in
Colonial Bengal. 6. Vdyasagar and Brahmanical Society. 7. Customs
in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana. 8. Silencing Heresy.
9. The Daughter of Aryavarta. 10. Viresalingam and the Ideology of
Social Change in Andhra. 11. Conjugality and Hindu
Nationalism:Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife.
12. Rebellious Wives and Dysfunctional Marriages: Indian Women's
Discourses and Participation in the Debates Over Restitution of Conjugal
Rights and the Child Marriage Controversy in the 1880s and 1890s.
Vol. II:
13.
Punjab and the North-West. 14. Muslim Women and the Control of
Property in North India. 15. Prize-Winning Adab: a Study of
five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette
Notification. 16. Sayyid Mumtaz 'Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's
Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu. 17. Gender and the
Politics of Space: the Movement for Women's Reform, 1857-1900. 18.
Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement C. 1925-1948. 19.
Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Malabar. 20. Women and Gender in the
Study of Tribes in India. 21. The 'Second Women's War' and the
Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur. 22. Gender in the
critique of colonisim and nationalism: locating the 'Indian Woman. 23.
Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu code: a victory of symbol over
substance. Part B. Contemporary Documents. 24. Tracts against
Sati. 25. The woeful plight of Hindu women. 26. From Stripurusha
Tulana. 27. From miscellaneous writings. 28. The worship of
women. Copyright statement. |
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Title :
Women and Social Reform in Modern
India : A Reader
Author :
Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar (eds.)
Publsher :
Permanent Black
Year :
2007
Pages :
V.1. 465p.’ V.2. 385p.
Contents :Vol. I: Introduction. Part A. Historical
Research . 1. Whose Sati?: Widow Burning in Early-Nineteenth-Century
India. 2. .Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in
Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal. 3. Education for Women. 4. Law,
Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of
1856. 5. Caste, Widow-Remarriage, and the Reform of Popular Culture in
Colonial Bengal. 6. Vdyasagar and Brahmanical Society. 7. Customs
in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana. 8. Silencing Heresy.
9. The Daughter of Aryavarta. 10. Viresalingam and the Ideology of
Social Change in Andhra. 11. Conjugality and Hindu
Nationalism:Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife.
12. Rebellious Wives and Dysfunctional Marriages: Indian Women's
Discourses and Participation in the Debates Over Restitution of Conjugal
Rights and the Child Marriage Controversy in the 1880s and 1890s.
Vol. II:
13.
Punjab and the North-West. 14. Muslim Women and the Control of
Property in North India. 15. Prize-Winning Adab: a Study of
five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette
Notification. 16. Sayyid Mumtaz 'Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's
Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu. 17. Gender and the
Politics of Space: the Movement for Women's Reform, 1857-1900. 18.
Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement C. 1925-1948. 19.
Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Malabar. 20. Women and Gender in the
Study of Tribes in India. 21. The 'Second Women's War' and the
Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur. 22. Gender in the
critique of colonisim and nationalism: locating the 'Indian Woman. 23.
Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu code: a victory of symbol over
substance. Part B. Contemporary Documents. 24. Tracts against
Sati. 25. The woeful plight of Hindu women. 26. From Stripurusha
Tulana. 27. From miscellaneous writings. 28. The worship of
women. Copyright statement. |
"The subject
of social reforms has routinely formed a part of Indian history
texts. The word 'reforms' normally conjures up the names of a
few great individuals, invariably Hindu: upper-caste educated
men from metropolitan cities, and one or two memorable women.
This galaxy of remarkable persons identified and abolished
abuses in social life, and their efforts brought about more
progressive gender relations.The editors of the present work
argue the need to understand the history of social reforms from
a much wider array of perspectives: for example, the connections
between specific social abuses on the one hand, and, on the
other, systems or traditions of gender practices across times,
classes, castes, and regions. For instance, when we look at
widow immolation or widow remarriage practices, we need to look
also at the larger domain of gender relations which sanctified
immolation or which outlawed widow remarriage: what arguments
were used? What aspects of these practices did the reformers
ignore? How did Orthodox practitioners defend such
traditions?There are also, the editors argue, other curious
omissions in the existing literature: 'Most reforms passed
through the grid of state legislation. Yet, there is little
engagement even with the law-making machinery.... and far less
with the judicial courts that enforced the laws and dealt with
disputes around the new laws'.Such omissions are addressed, and
many interesting questions raised and discussed, in this
impressive collection of writings." [from the back cover]
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"The subject
of social reforms has routinely formed a part of Indian history
texts. The word 'reforms' normally conjures up the names of a
few great individuals, invariably Hindu: upper-caste educated
men from metropolitan cities, and one or two memorable women.
This galaxy of remarkable persons identified and abolished
abuses in social life, and their efforts brought about more
progressive gender relations.The editors of the present work
argue the need to understand the history of social reforms from
a much wider array of perspectives: for example, the connections
between specific social abuses on the one hand, and, on the
other, systems or traditions of gender practices across times,
classes, castes, and regions. For instance, when we look at
widow immolation or widow remarriage practices, we need to look
also at the larger domain of gender relations which sanctified
immolation or which outlawed widow remarriage: what arguments
were used? What aspects of these practices did the reformers
ignore? How did Orthodox practitioners defend such
traditions?There are also, the editors argue, other curious
omissions in the existing literature: 'Most reforms passed
through the grid of state legislation. Yet, there is little
engagement even with the law-making machinery.... and far less
with the judicial courts that enforced the laws and dealt with
disputes around the new laws'.Such omissions are addressed, and
many interesting questions raised and discussed, in this
impressive collection of writings." [from the back cover]
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