| Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry Revised Edition Contributor(s): Sen, Samita (Author), Bayly, Christopher Alan (Editor), Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521035066 ISBN-13: 9780521035064 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $59.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 331.409 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6" W x 9" (0.94 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Indian - Ethnic Orientation - Indian |