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Men at home : imagining liberation in colonial and postcolonial India / Gyanendra Pandey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pandey, Gyanendra, 1950- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men--India--Attitudes.
- Men.
- Masculinity--Social aspects--India.
- Masculinity.
- Home--India.
- Home.
- Families--India.
- Families.
- Postcolonialism--South Asia.
- Postcolonialism.
- India--Social life and customs.
- India.
- India--Civilization--1947-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Family and home are commonly equated with women and children. Men at Home changes this visual by situating men firmly in the domestic world. It underlines men's dependence on the family and home, although men (and societies more broadly) tend to treat the domestic as incidental to men's lives. Gyanendra Pandey looks at historical narrative examples of men in the home across class and caste, showing how men-specifically husbands-navigate their home lives through and beyond their relationships with women and family. As much as this is a book about Indian masculinity and conjugality, it is also a book about Indian modernity, nationalism, and society, seen from the location of men in the home. Pandey utilizes an abundant and growing archive of autobiographies and memoirs, ethnographic accounts, and fiction, which details life in the intimate space of family and home. Men at Home raises important questions about the meaning of honor and shame, rights and responsibilities, citizenship and belonging in the domestic-and wider public-worlds of colonial and postcolonial South Asia"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Indian modern
- Homes our fathers built
- Duty
- Discipline
- Dignity
- The things men touched
- The nature of men.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pandey, Gyanendra, 1950- Men at home.
- ISBN:
- 9781478060376
- 1478060379
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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