Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history / Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube.

Contributor:

Dube, Renu.

Dube, Reena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infant girls--Violence against--India--History.

Infant girls.

Infanticide--India--History.

Infanticide.

Women--Violence against--India--History.

Women.

Women--India--Social conditions.

Feminism--India.

Feminism.

India--Population.

India.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Practice of Femicide in Postcolonial India and the Discourse of Population Control within the Nation State

Center and Periphery in British India: Post-Enlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room

Social Mobility in Relation to Female Infanticide in Rajput Clans: British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy

A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800–1854

Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition

The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.

ISBN:

9780791483855

0791483851

9781423743712

1423743717

OCLC:

76786431