Woman And Indian Modernity

Author : Nalini Natarajan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111768805

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Woman and Indian Modernity by Nalini Natarajan Pdf

Drawing from the large body of criticism on non-European modernities in recent years, this study targets what seems to be a discernable ambivalence in these studies. The author seeks to investigate Twentieth-Century India?s complex negotiations with modernity, with its usefulness as well as its threat, at one of the most vulnerable points of definition, the position of women. Focusing on the disciplines or genres within which modernity is introduced, the study uses the modern literary genre, as well as intellectual disciplines. Using these two domains of study, an interdisciplinary framework is developed by looking at how narratives may be read in the light of other disciplines constructing the modern subject-ideologies of manners and ?refinement?, prohibition, ethnography, ethnopsychology, film, property law and urban history.The book argues that the possibilities in modernity are subject to a constant negotiation and become domesticated through the century, especially in the area of gendering. Gendering is revealed as a historically contingent process operating differently at different historical moments. The analysis enables us to see the ideological gender constructions and contradictions behind modern versions of caste, modern daughterhood, modern citizenhood, and modern proprietorship.

Author : Devapriya Sanyal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000509199

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Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema by Devapriya Sanyal Pdf

This book analyses the role of women in the films of one of the leading filmmakers of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in filmmaking in India. The book explores the portrayal of women in the context of the creation of national culture after India became independent. Gender issues were very important to India under Jawaharlal Nehru in the 1950s – with the enactment of inheritance and divorce laws. Ray’s portrayal of women and his films anticipate much of the theorizing of later-day feminism. This book analyses cinematic texts with special reference to the women characters using feminist film theory and representation along with a study of the socio-political and economic conditions pertinent to the times – both relevant to the film’s making and its setting. The primary texts studied are films spanning over four decades from Pather Panchali (1955) to his last trilogy and are based on a categorization of the broad feminine ‘types’ represented in the films – based on the socio-political situations in which they are placed – and their relationships with the other characters present. Ray’s portrayal of women has an enormous bearing on our understanding of how modern India evolved in the Nehru era and after, and this book explore just that: the place of the woman as it is and should be in a young nation encumbered by patriarchy. Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema will be of interest to academics in the field of World cinema, Indian and Bengali cinema, Film Studies as well as Gender Studies and South Asian culture and society.

Author : Bal Ram Nanda
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Women
ISBN : UCSC:32106017135465

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Indian Women, from Purdah to Modernity by Bal Ram Nanda Pdf

Author : Shakuntala Devi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024343555

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Tradition and Modernity Among Indian Women by Shakuntala Devi Pdf

Women In Ancient India Played A Dynamic Role In Hindu Society. During The Muslim Period, Indian Woman Had To Adapt Her Role According To Changing Circumstances And Social Evils Like Child Marriage And Purdah System Came Into Vogue And Women s Status Under Went Subservient. Indian Women Have Responded To Modern Conditions In A Very Progressive Way. Indian Woman Have Made Its Mark In The Field Of Politics, Education And Professions. Inspite Of High Illiteracy Rate Among Indian Women, India Has Produced Eminent Indian Women In The Post Independence Period. This Book Examines The Role Of Indian Women In A Historical And Comparative Perspectives. The Book It Is Hoped Will Be Found Useful By Social Scientists, Policy Planners And National Leaders.

Author : J. Belliappa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137319227

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Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India by J. Belliappa Pdf

Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

Author : Usha Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8189652966

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Indian Women: From Tradition To Modernity. 3 Vols. Set by Usha Sharma Pdf

Author : A. Raghuramaraju
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199088362

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Modernity in Indian Social Theory by A. Raghuramaraju Pdf

Unlike the West, India presents a fascinating example of a society where the pre-modern continues to co-exist with the modern. Modernity in Indian Social Theory explores the social variance between India and the West to show how it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju argues that modernity in the West involved disinheriting the pre-modern, and temporal ordering of the traditional and modern. It was ruthlessly implemented through programmes of industrialization, nationalism, and secularism. This book underscores that India did not merely the Western model of modernity or experience a temporal ordering of society. It situates this sociological complexity in the context of the debates on social theory. The author critically examines various discourses on modernity in India, including Partha Chatterjee’s account of Indian nationalism; Javeed Alam’s reading of Indian secularism; the use of the term pluralism by some Indian social scientists; and Gopal Guru’s emphasis on the lived Dalit experience. He also engages with the readings on key thinkers including Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi, and Ambedkar.

Author : Geraldine Forbes,Geraldine Hancock Forbes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521653770

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Women in Modern India by Geraldine Forbes,Geraldine Hancock Forbes Pdf

Through their own accounts, the author traces the history of Indian women from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence.

Author : Anita Sharma
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8170992389

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Modernisation and Status of Working Women in India by Anita Sharma Pdf

Author : Shailaja Paik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317673316

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Dalit Women's Education in Modern India by Shailaja Paik Pdf

Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this book, Shailaja Paik focuses on the struggle of Dalit women in one arena - the realm of formal education – and examines a range of interconnected social, cultural and political questions. What did education mean to women? How did changes in women’s education affect their views of themselves and their domestic work, public employment, marriage, sexuality, and childbearing and rearing? What does the dissonance between the rhetoric and practice of secular education tell us about the deeper historical entanglement with modernity as experienced by Dalit communities? Dalit Women's Education in Modern India is a social and cultural history that challenges the triumphant narrative of modern secular education to analyse the constellation of social, economic, political and historical circumstances that both opened and closed opportunities to many Dalits. By focusing on marginalised Dalit women in modern Maharashtra, who have rarely been at the centre of systematic historical enquiry, Paik breathes life into their ideas, expectations, potentials, fears and frustrations. Addressing two major blind spots in the historiography of India and of the women’s movement, she historicises Dalit women’s experiences and constructs them as historical agents. The book combines archival research with historical fieldwork, and centres on themes including slum life, urban middle classes, social and sexual labour, and family, marriage and children to provide a penetrating portrait of the actions and lives of Dalit women. Elegantly conceived and convincingly argued, Dalit Women's Education in Modern India will be invaluable to students of History, Caste Politics, Women and Gender Studies, Education Studies, Urban Studies and Asian studies.

Author : Abha Avasthi,A. K. Srivastava (reader in sociology.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051695768

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Modernity, Feminism, and Women Empowerment by Abha Avasthi,A. K. Srivastava (reader in sociology.) Pdf

"In many societies across the world, women are discriminated against by law and by customs, rendering them among the vulnerable and disadvantaged social groups. While gender is at the centre, the issues discussed in this volume range from modernity to empowerment. The volume presents the women issues in their holistic perspective underlying and highlighting the dilemmas of women development. Besides, it also offers a competent critique of models of feminism the issues discussed in the book have become increasingly important over the years. The volume will benefit the social scientists, social activists, researchers and government functionaries alike."

Author : Evelyn Clara Gedge,Mithan Choksi
Publisher : Westport, Conn. : Hyperion Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000709752

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Women in Modern India by Evelyn Clara Gedge,Mithan Choksi Pdf

Author : Amitava Chatterjee (Assistant professor of history)
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 9389850010

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Historicizing Gendered Modernities in India by Amitava Chatterjee (Assistant professor of history) Pdf

This book shows how gender is central to our imagination and understanding of modernity. The essays in this volume unravel the complexities of modernity's relationship to femininity and the cultures of gender construction amidst the diverse manifestations of colonialism and nationalism. The essays cover varied aspects of gender identities, including the private spheres of elite women who expressed their freedom through their subversive, restricted sexuality, thus shaking off the shackles of domination; the debates regarding dress codes for women; the deplorable condition of girls after marriage; legislative battles to achieve the right to divorce; challenges to notions of sports as a masculine activity; the different meanings of modernity for women writers; the implications of print cultures and cinema on women; gendered meanings of peace and partition; women's preferences, perceptions and practices; the politics of resistance; and questions of agency and autonomy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:648073005

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Paegyang-taep'yo-esei-sŏn by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alys Eve The Modern Girl around the World Research Group,Alys Eve Weinbaum,Lynn M. Thomas,Priti Ramamurthy,Uta G. Poiger,Madeleine Yue Dong,Tani Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822389194

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The Modern Girl Around the World by Alys Eve The Modern Girl around the World Research Group,Alys Eve Weinbaum,Lynn M. Thomas,Priti Ramamurthy,Uta G. Poiger,Madeleine Yue Dong,Tani Barlow Pdf

During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface to disregard the prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual, economic, or political emancipation, or whether she was little more than an image, a hollow product of the emerging global commodity culture. The contributors to this collection track the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon in the interwar period. Scholars of history, women’s studies, literature, and cultural studies follow the Modern Girl around the world, analyzing her manifestations in Germany, Australia, China, Japan, France, India, the United States, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Along the way, they demonstrate how the economic structures and cultural flows that shaped a particular form of modern femininity crossed national and imperial boundaries. In so doing, they highlight the gendered dynamics of interwar processes of racial formation, showing how images and ideas of the Modern Girl were used to shore up or critique nationalist and imperial agendas. A mix of collaborative and individually authored chapters, the volume concludes with commentaries by Kathy Peiss, Miriam Silverberg, and Timothy Burke. Contributors: Davarian L. Baldwin, Tani E. Barlow, Timothy Burke, Liz Conor, Madeleine Yue Dong, Anne E. Gorsuch, Ruri Ito, Kathy Peiss, Uta G. Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Mary Louise Roberts, Barbara Sato, Miriam Silverberg, Lynn M. Thomas, Alys Eve Weinbaum