Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history /
Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube.
Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history / Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube & Reena Dube. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.
The practice of femicide in postcolonial India and the discourse of population control within the nation state -- Center and periphery in British India : post-enlightenment discursive construction of daughters buried under the family room -- Social mobility in relation to female infanticide in Rajput clans : British and indigenous contestations about lineage purity and hypergamy -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part I : infanticide reform as an extra-economic extraction of surplus -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part II : the erasure of the female child under population discourse -- Subaltern traditions of resistance to Rajput patriarchy articulated by generations of women within the Meera tradition -- The Meera tradition as a historic embrace of the poor and the dispossessed -- Appendix : the Baee Nathee case.
1423743717 9781423743712 0791463273 9780791463277 0791463281 9780791463284 9780791483855 0791483851
Infant girls--Violence against--History.--India
Infanticide--History.--India
Women--Violence against--History.--India
Women--Social conditions.--India
Feminism--India.
Violence envers les bébés filles--Histoire.--Inde
Infanticide--Histoire.--Inde
Violence envers les femmes--Histoire.--Inde
Femmes--Conditions sociales.--Inde
Féminisme--Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Customs & Traditions.
Vrouwen.
Kindermoord.
Geweld.
India--Population.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
Inde--Population.
Inde--Histoire--1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Electronic books.
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Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history / Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube & Reena Dube. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.
The practice of femicide in postcolonial India and the discourse of population control within the nation state -- Center and periphery in British India : post-enlightenment discursive construction of daughters buried under the family room -- Social mobility in relation to female infanticide in Rajput clans : British and indigenous contestations about lineage purity and hypergamy -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part I : infanticide reform as an extra-economic extraction of surplus -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part II : the erasure of the female child under population discourse -- Subaltern traditions of resistance to Rajput patriarchy articulated by generations of women within the Meera tradition -- The Meera tradition as a historic embrace of the poor and the dispossessed -- Appendix : the Baee Nathee case.
1423743717 9781423743712 0791463273 9780791463277 0791463281 9780791463284 9780791483855 0791483851
Infant girls--Violence against--History.--India
Infanticide--History.--India
Women--Violence against--History.--India
Women--Social conditions.--India
Feminism--India.
Violence envers les bébés filles--Histoire.--Inde
Infanticide--Histoire.--Inde
Violence envers les femmes--Histoire.--Inde
Femmes--Conditions sociales.--Inde
Féminisme--Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Customs & Traditions.
Vrouwen.
Kindermoord.
Geweld.
India--Population.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
Inde--Population.
Inde--Histoire--1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Electronic books.
HV6541.I5 / B53 2005eb
392.1/2