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Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia
Anindita Ghosh
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Description for Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia
Hardcover. This book re-examines 'everyday resistance', gender and power through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. Moving away from educated and outstanding figures and drawing on a range of unconventional sources, it unearths a narrative of deep and enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
This book re-examines 'everyday resistance', gender and power through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. Moving away from educated and outstanding figures and drawing on a range of unconventional sources, it unearths a narrative of deep and enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives.
This book re-examines 'everyday resistance', gender and power through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. Moving away from educated and outstanding figures and drawing on a range of unconventional sources, it unearths a narrative of deep and enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230553446
SKU
V9780230553446
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99-15
About Anindita Ghosh
PADMA ANAGOL Lecturer in History, Cardiff University, UK CLARE ANDERSON Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester, UK GERALDINE FORBES Distinguised Teaching Professor, State University of New York Oswego, USA ANINDITA GHOSH Lecturer in Modern History, University of Manchester, UK SIOBHAN LAMBERT-HURLEY Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Nottingham Trent University, UK NITA VARMA PRASAD Assistant Professor of History, East Stroudsburg University, USA ... Read more
Reviews for Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia
'...an important contribution to the study of women in colonial South Asia.' The International Journal of Asian Studies