Patricia Jeffery 
Don’t Marry Me To A Plowman! [EPUB ebook] 
Women’s Everyday Lives In Rural North India

Support

Popular Western images of Indian women range from submissive brides behind their veils to the powerful, active women of Indian politics. In this lively and unique book, Patricia and Roger Jeffery present a different perspective on women’s lives. Focusing on the mundane rather than the exotic, they explore the complex interplay between the power of social structures to constrain individuals and the ways women negotiate these constraints to carve out places for themselves. Based on information collected by the authors during their research in villages in Bijnor District, western Uttar Pradesh, the volume offers eight life histories of Hindu and Muslim women. The women’s life histories present a variety of class positions and domestic circumstances, illustrating many aspects of north Indian village life. Interspersed with thematic discussion composed of dialogues, episodes, and songs, the life histories deal with topics of vital concern for women in rural north India: the birth of children, worries about dowry, arranging weddings, sexual politics in marriage, relationships with inlaws, relationships with natal kin, and widowhood.

€64.44
Zahlungsmethoden
Dieses Ebook kaufen – und ein weitere GRATIS erhalten!
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 304 ● ISBN 9780429980541 ● Verlag Taylor and Francis ● Erscheinungsjahr 2018 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 6556338 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
erfordert DRM-fähige Lesetechnologie

Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber

87.603 Ebooks in dieser Kategorie