Women and labour in late colonial India: the Bengal jute industry

"Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. She demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy...

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1. Verfasser: Sen, Samita (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1999
Ausgabe:1 publ.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in Indian history and society 3
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Zusammenfassung:"Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. She demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry giving, enforced widowhood and child marriage."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XVIII, 265 S. Kt.
ISBN:0521453631

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