Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia
This book aims at re-examining the issue of 'everyday resistance'
through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. The
overwhelming image of Indian women during the period is one of
passivity, with the exception of some outstanding figures. The attempt
in the present volume is to unearth a narrative of deeper and more
enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily
lives. In a breathtaking collection of essays key scholars in the field
bring together evidence from a range of unconventional sources such as
women's songs, photographs, and embroidery, but equally from legal
records, memoirs, and published work, to present women in far more
assertive and/or subversive roles.
The volume is, however, as
much about the nature of power as it is about women. Inspired by both
subaltern and gender studies, it tries to highlight the complex ways in
which power operates within oppressive structures, making any simple
valorization – and for that matter, theorization – of gendered
resistance difficult if not impossible.
Contributors:
Padma Anagol, Clare Anderson, Geraldine Forbes, Anindita Ghosh, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Tanika Sarkar, Nita Varma Prasad.
Price: US$ 100.00
Palgrave Macmillan; September 2008
243 pages; ISBN 9780230583672
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