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Author Lal, Ruby, author.

Title Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness / Ruby Lal
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Prelude: opening the door -- 1. Texts, spaces, histories -- 2. The woman of the forest -- 3. The woman of the school -- 4. The woman of the household -- 5. The woman of the rooftops -- A retrospect: in pursuit of playfulness
Summary "In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skilfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, which are elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household and rooftop"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index
Notes English
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Subject Women -- India -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Girls -- India -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Domestic relations -- India -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Teenagers.
Domestic relations
Girls -- Social life and customs
Women -- Social life and customs
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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