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Description

1. xix, 461 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana, 1880-1990, draws on a large range of popular sources such as folk songs, oral traditions and interviews as well as statistical data and archival material to explore certain major issues regarding the position of women in rural Haryana in north India. Covering a period of a hundred years, the author explores the participation of women, specially among the landholding classes, in the process of production and reproduction; the exclusion of women from the control of resources; the consequences of the new agricultural technologies on women and their work; the resistence of patriarchal society to a change in the legal position of women; the upholding of the customary practices relating to marriage and property by the colonial and the post colonial state; and lastly the complicity of women themselves in the reconstruction of patriarchy."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. Gender studies

Uniform title

1. Gender studies (Rome, Italy)

Subject

1. Women > India > Haryana
2. Rural population
3. Social change
4. Women > sociology
5. Rural Population
6. Social Change
7. 71.31 sexes and their interrelations
8. Social change
9. Rural population
10. Women
11. Frau
12. Sekseverschillen
13. Vrouwen
14. Patriarchaat (sociologie)
15. Platteland
16. Femmes > Inde > Haryana
17. Rôle selon le sexe > Inde > Haryana
18. Femmes en milieu rural > Inde > Haryana > Conditions sociales
19. Geschichte 1880-1990
20. India > Haryana
21. Haryana
22. Haryana (Inde) > Moeurs et coutumes

Contents

1. 1. The Veiled Woman. 2. Popular Culture. 3. Oral History. 4. Haryana -- 1. Peasant Economy: Interaction of Culture, Patriarchy and the Colonial State. 1. A Backward Economy: Colonial Strategy. 2. Peasant Castes and Dominant Peasant Ethos. 3. Peasant Needs: Preference for Males. 4. Women's Utility to Agriculture: Local Perception and Colonial View. 5. Socio-Cultural Fall-out of Peasant Economy: Marriage and Bride-price. 6. Widow Remarriage: Custom of Karewa. 7. The Question of Inheritance: Wider Interests behind Strengthening of Karewa. 8. Widows' Resistance: Sexual Morality and Liberal Attitudes. 9. Economy of Production and Reproduction -- 2. Ideological and Cultural Realities: Rural Women and the changed Socio-Economy. 1. A Break with the Past: The Independent State. 2. A Skewed Economy: Need of Female-Family Labour. 3. Economics of Animal Husbandry. 4. Female Agricultural Labour: Work and Wages. 5. Migration of Men: Effects, Physical and Emotional. 6. Cultural Work Ethics: Conflict with Female Education. 7. Expenditure Patterns: Women's Voice and Entitlement. 8. Indoctrination of Females: Nutritional and Health Consequences. 9. Increased Consumerism and Urbanization: Growing Nuclei of Male Control. 10. Technology and Domestic Work: Women's Limited Sphere of Control. 11. Constraints on Decision Making: The Concept of the Dominant Woman. 12. Purdah: Ideological and Physical Constraints. 13. Male Perception: Projected Views and Realities.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-444) and index.