Ruby Lal

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India (eBook, ePUB)

The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this engaging 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. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century remained agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household, and rooftops.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139854375
• Artikelnr.: 52832535

Autorenporträt

Ruby Lal is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University. She has written extensively on women and gender relations in Islamic societies in the precolonial and colonial world. In addition to numerous academic articles and political commentaries, she is the author of Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge, 2005). She is currently finalizing a historical biography of the Mughal Empress Nur Jahan (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Texts, spaces, histories
2. The woman of the forest
3. The woman of the school
4. The woman of the household
5. The woman of the rooftops.