Women and work in precolonial India : a reader / edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vijaya Ramaswamy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--India--History.

Women.

Occupations.

History.

India.

Occupations--India--History.

Women--India--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Women--India--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

India--History.

Women--Economic conditions.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 446 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2016.

Summary:

Women and work is an important dimension of the ongoing debate on gender parity. This book is a compilation of essays related to traditional perceptions of women's work juxtaposed with recent feminist writings on women's space in India's labour history. The essays highlight the points and counterpoints of the ongoing debate on the nature, quantification and monetary valuation of women's work. Beginning with writings on the theme of women and work, and going on to historically plot women's agency in labour processes, this book seeks to provide a panoramic survey of women and work in precolonial India. It is an endeavour to salvage the available data on women's work-paid and unpaid as well as visible and less visible-in order to highlight their contribution and indicate the changes in women's labour history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Women and the Household: Canonical Prescriptions and Their Feminist Critique 1

Chapter 1 The Daily Duties of Women / Julia Leslie Leslie, Julia 3

Chapter 2 Position and Status of Women in the Upanisads / T. R. Sharma Sharma, T. R. 9

Chapter 3 Woman in the Household / M. A. Indra Indra, M. A. 13

Chapter 4 Economic Rights of Ancient Indian Women / Sukumari Bhattacharji Bhattacharji, Sukumari 22

Chapter 5 Dynamics of Women's Work in the Sastric Sources: Household and Beyond / Kavita Gaur Gaur, Kavita 37

Chapter 6 Tracking Economic Transitions: Tamil Women from Tribe to Caste and Changing Production Roles / Vijaya Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Vijaya 49

Chapter 7 The Question of Women's 'Agency': Women, Work and Domesticity in Early Textual Traditions / Jaya Tyagi Tyagi, Jaya 65

Section II Women and Work in Early Textual Traditions 89

Chapter 8 The Woman Worker / I. B. Horner Horner, I. B.

Chapter 9 Of Dasas and Karmakaras: Servile Labour in Ancient India / Uma Chakravarti Chakravarti, Uma 98

Chapter 10 Women and Work in Kautiliya's Arthasastra / Upasana Dhankhar Dhankhar, Upasana 120

Section III Women and Economic Resources: Women's Property Rights 135

Chapter 11 Proprietary Rights during Coverture / Anant Sadashiv Altekar Altekar, Anant Sadashiv 137

Chapter 12 Proprietary Rights: Inheritance and Partition / Anant Sadashiv Altekar Altekar, Anant Sadashiv 150

Chapter 13 The Legal Status of Women: Their Right of Inheritance / M. A. Indra Indra, M. A. 177

Chapter 14 Property Rights of Women in Ancient India / N. N. Bhattacharyya Bhattacharyya, N. N. 185

Chapter 15 Turmeric Land: Women's Property Rights in Tamil Society since Early Medieval Times / Kanakalatha Mukund Mukund, Kanakalatha 195

Chapter 16 Property Rights of Women in Medieval Andhra / A. Padma Padma, A. 209

Section IV Contextualising Women's Work in the Public Domain 215

Chapter 17 State of the Field: Perspectives on Women and Work in Early South India / Vijaya Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Vijaya 217

Chapter 18 Women's Professions in Medieval Andhra / A. Padma Padma, A. 243

Chapter 19 Temple Women and Work in Medieval Keralam / Anna Varghese Varghese, Anna 259

Chapter 20 Gender, Caste and Labour: Ideological and Material Structure of Widowhood / Uma Chakravarti Chakravarti, Uma 277

Chapter 21 Work and Gender in Mughal India / Shireen Moosvi Moosvi, Shireen 310

Section V Devaradiya: Hand-maidens of God or Sex-workers? 327

Chapter 22 Courtesans / Vatsyayana Mallanaga Mallanaga, Vatsyayana 329

Chapter 23 Temple Women as Temple Servants / Leslie Orr Orr, Leslie 352

Chapter 24 In the Business of Kama: Prostitution in Classical Sanskrit Literature from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Centuries / Shalini Shah Shah, Shalini 392

Chapter 25 Prostitution in Ancient India / Sukumari Bhattacharji Bhattacharji, Sukumari 418.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789351507413

9351507416

OCLC:

953224440

Publisher Number:

99970227941