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Gender and nation.
Van Pelt Library HQ1742 .G435 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- India.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 424 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2001.
- Summary:
- Contributed articles with reference to India.
- Contents:
- Is the Hindu goddess a feminist? / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
- Mirabai and the spiritual economy of Bhakti / Kumkum Sangari
- Gender, body, and everyday life / Meenakshi Thapan
- Tradition, the family, and the state : politics of the women's movement in the eighties / Indu Agnihotri & Rajni Palriwala
- Marriage, sexuality, and the female "ascetic": understanding a Hindu sect / Prem Chowdhry
- Reconceptualising gender: Phule, Brahminism, and Brahmanical patriarchy / Uma Chakravarti
- Gandhi, women's roles, and the freedom movement / Karuna Chanana
- Construction and reconstruction of woman in Gandhi / Sujata Patel
- Chitrangada, not sita: Jawaharlal Nehru's model for gender equation / Reba Som
- Rural women and labour force participation / Shakti Kak.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 818761403X
- OCLC:
- 48516956
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