Women in Bengal (eBook, PDF)

In Reality and Through Representations
Redaktion: Sen, Sudarshana

• Format: PDF

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 eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040109588
• Artikelnr.: 72273338

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 Liminality in 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