Communities of Women in Assam (eBook, PDF)

Being, doing and thinking together
Redaktion: Dutta, Nandana

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses communities of women as a framework for reading women's experience, rights and aspirations in Assam and Northeast India. It examines the diversity in ideologies across women's communities in these regions. This volume highlights multifaceted aspects of women's groups and their participation in various issues of the state, society and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317328704
• Artikelnr.: 45253168

Autorenporträt

Nandana Dutta is Professor of English at Gauhati University, Assam, India. Her areas of work include Assam and modernity, English literature, American studies, women's studies and the politics of representations. She has published essays in journals such as Global South, Journeys, Interventions , Journal of Contemporary Thought, Journal of Creative Communication, Seminar and Australian Literary Studies besides contributing essays to edited collections on Assam, identity and violence. She is also the author of Questions of Identity in Assam (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Society 1. "Great Sensation in
Guwahati": Mini's Marriage, Assam Mahila Samiti and the Sarda Act in late
colonial Assam 2. Witch-hunting and resistance to the formation of women's
community 3. Participation in and Access to the Public 'Sacred' Space:
Sisterhood and the Naamghar in Assam 4. Questions of Space, Autonomy and
Identity: A study of the Communities of Jain women in Dibrugarh 5. Lesbian
Women and the Politics of Community Formation: Changing Discourses on
Citizenship Part 2: Culture 6. Media Representing Women -Women in the Media
Exploring Possibilities of Community 7. Pushpalata Das' Agnisnata
Chandraprava: Woman Writing Woman 8. The Assam Lekhika Sanstha: A Community
of Women Writers 9. Nature, Science and Women's Community 10. Women,
Community and the Material Culture of Food Appendix Aamish O Niraamish
Aahar (Vegetarian and Non Vegetarian Cuisine) (Selections) Translated and
Annotated