In pursuit of playfulness: the girl-child/woman and nineteenth-century India
Lal, Ruby
₹ 1595.00
In this engagning and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties.
ISBN 13: 9789352904044
ISBN 10: 9352904044
Year: 2019
Language: ENGLISH
Pages etc.: xvii+229p., (4)photos in b/w, (2)maps, bib., ind., 24cm.
Binding: Hardbound
Subject(s): History, Sociology
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