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Making of Womanhood
Shalini Shah
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
This second edition tries to answer concerns about Mahabharata as a source for history and about continued relevance of patriarchal construct in writing a new women's history. While there is no need to interpret structures as monolithic or beyond changes of time, the scale of that change cannot always be measured in terms of just technology and political formation of a given chronological span. Variations in women's lives will have to be seen at the micro level such as the varieties of households and the domestic, reproductive and sexual arrangements therein. In analysing the mechanism of patriarchal domination the structures ... Read more
This second edition tries to answer concerns about Mahabharata as a source for history and about continued relevance of patriarchal construct in writing a new women's history. While there is no need to interpret structures as monolithic or beyond changes of time, the scale of that change cannot always be measured in terms of just technology and political formation of a given chronological span. Variations in women's lives will have to be seen at the micro level such as the varieties of households and the domestic, reproductive and sexual arrangements therein. In analysing the mechanism of patriarchal domination the structures ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manohar Publishers and Distributors India
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9788173049774
SKU
V9788173049774
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About Shalini Shah
Shalini Shah is a senior Associate Professor in the department of History, University of Delhi. She has worked for over two decades on issues of gender relations in early India and has published many papers in prestigious journals. She is the author most recently of Love, Eroticism and Female Sexuality in Classical Sanskrit Literature: Seventh-Thirteenth Centuries (2009).
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