Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: xvii, 229 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9781107030244 (hardback)Subject(s): Women | Girls | Domestic relations | History- IndiaDDC classification: 305.235 2 Summary: "In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skilfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, which are elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household and rooftop"--Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BK | Kannur University Central Library Stack | Stack | 305.235 2 LAL (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 37516 |
Browsing Kannur University Central Library shelves, Shelving location: Stack, Collection: Stack Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
305.231 HAN The Cambridge handbook of environment in human development / | 305.231 LIG/D Development of children | 305.231 SAN/C Child development, an introduction | 305.235 2 LAL Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness | 305.235 CLA/Y Youth culture in China : from Red Guards to netizens | 305.2350941 CHA Changing adolescence: Social trends and mental health | 305.26 INT Introduction to gerontology |
"In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skilfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, which are elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household and rooftop"--
There are no comments on this title.