Women in Bengal

In Reality and Through Representations
Herausgeber: Sen, Sudarshana

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the status of women in Bengal, India, by examining the versatile everyday living conditions of women, and how they are represented as individuals and a category in the media. It will be of interest to researchers in Gender Studies, South Asian Culture and Society and Studies on India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 770g
• ISBN-13: 9781032754246
• ISBN-10: 1032754249
• Artikelnr.: 70151158

Autorenporträt

Sudarshana Sen is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Gour Banga, India. She is the author of Anglo-Indian Women in Transition (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Women in Bengal: In Reality Chapter 1. The Partition,
Changing Mindscapes and Evolving Contours of Intimacy; Chapter 2. Peeping
in a Girls' Madrasa in Malda: Getting an Insider's view; Chapter 3.
Debating the Livelihood Narratives of Home-based Zari Working Women of
Panchla Area, West Bengal; Chapter 4. Care Crises Facing the Urban
Middle-Class Elderly Women in India; Chapter 5. Exploring Liminal
Identities in Indigenous Jatra Performances; Chapter 6. Contradictions at
the Feminine Space of a Kali Temple; Chapter 7. Plight of Tiger widows of
Sundarbans: Their Struggle, Cyclone and Pandemic; Chapter 8. Acid Attacks
in West Bengal; Chapter 9. Motherhood: A Sacred desire or predicament?
Chapter 10. Unfolding Voices: Addressing the issues of Inconsistencies in
studying The Indian Jewish Women; Chapter 11. Conflicting well-being of
earth and future generation: Gendered fertility crisis in West Bengal;
Chapter 12. Political Perception and Engagement of selected women
professional of Kolkata: A Qualitative Focus Group Study; Chapter 13.
Looking forward at Livelihood Question Through the Lens of Gender and
Sexuality as perceived by Transfeminine Individuals; Chapter 14. Relocating
the subaltern voice in the 'hijra' subjectivity(s): a Sociological Analysis
of a lifestory; Chapter 15. The 'Invisible Half': Women's Work in India in
the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 16. Women, Linguistic Violence and
Marginalization in India: An Exploration; Chapter 17. Exploring
Institutional Birth and Organizational Culture: A Case Study of
Matritva-Griha Part II: Women in Bengal: Through Representations Chapter
18. Anglo-Indian Women in Indian Cinema: Characters and Performances;
Chapter 19. Hyper Visible or Visibly Undervalued? Women in Post Pandemic
Bengali Print Advertisement; Chapter 20. Denying Manhood and Becoming
Women: Case Studies from India's Past and Present; Chapter 21. Sociological
Study on the Journey of Devi Manasa towards the acknowledgement of her
Divinity; Chapter 22. Donna Hoke's Digital Essay on Intimate (Male) Rape,
Epistemic Apertures, and Fourth- Wave Feminism in India: An Argument;
Chapter 23. Social Media Advertisements and Women's Empowerment: Imprints
of Change? Chapter 24. Women in Rituparno Ghosh's Cinema: A Selective Study
; Chapter 25. Centering the Margin: Rabindranath Tagore, Nation-building
and Mother-Child Intimacy; Appendix; Index