Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural HistoryState University of New York Press, 1 feb. 2012 - 334 sidor Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters. |
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... from her school library and thus inaugurated the research for this book, my daugh- ter Pankhuree. Her birth at Gangaram Hospital at Delhi was greeted with sympathy and condolences by the staff of the hospital ward xiii Acknowledgments.
... from her school library and thus inaugurated the research for this book, my daugh- ter Pankhuree. Her birth at Gangaram Hospital at Delhi was greeted with sympathy and condolences by the staff of the hospital ward xiii Acknowledgments.
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... birth to a daughter instead of a son. My contribution to this book is a protest against such practices. —R. D. B. We would like to thank our teachers and mentors who made the long and dif- ficult journey to and of this book a voyage of ...
... birth to a daughter instead of a son. My contribution to this book is a protest against such practices. —R. D. B. We would like to thank our teachers and mentors who made the long and dif- ficult journey to and of this book a voyage of ...
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... birth of female babies; however, India has a steadily declining sex ratio skewed in favor of male births. This phenomena of missing women is proof that it is not only the female fetus that is endangered but the overall conditions for ...
... birth of female babies; however, India has a steadily declining sex ratio skewed in favor of male births. This phenomena of missing women is proof that it is not only the female fetus that is endangered but the overall conditions for ...
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... birth but also in infancy. For example, one writer notes, “The significant decrease in the female population occurs after birth and before the age of four. From 1978 to 1983 . . . of the twelve million girls born each year, only nine ...
... birth but also in infancy. For example, one writer notes, “The significant decrease in the female population occurs after birth and before the age of four. From 1978 to 1983 . . . of the twelve million girls born each year, only nine ...
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... birth of a girl child for her marriage dowry (The Hindu, November 20, 1994). Dr. K. J. Kurian's observations on the Kallars in Usilampatti concur with Vaasanthi's econo- mistic solution to modern female infanticide, “The main point is ...
... birth of a girl child for her marriage dowry (The Hindu, November 20, 1994). Dr. K. J. Kurian's observations on the Kallars in Usilampatti concur with Vaasanthi's econo- mistic solution to modern female infanticide, “The main point is ...
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PostEnlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room | 29 |
British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy | 57 |
4 A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform 18001854 | 101 |
5 A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform 18001854 | 129 |
6 Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition | 169 |
7 The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed | 205 |
APPENDIX | 235 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 297 |
Index | 313 |
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