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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... crime of female infanticide was “discovered” by the British in colonial India, and the politics involved in the way this crime was named and discussed. We argue that the colonial politics of naming had an enormous impact on the way the ...
... crime of female infanticide was “discovered” by the British in colonial India, and the politics involved in the way this crime was named and discussed. We argue that the colonial politics of naming had an enormous impact on the way the ...
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... crime of gendered violence that the available statistics for female infanticide are conflicting. In 1998 the Indian Association for Women's Studies reports that 10,000 female fetuses are killed every year in India. The editorial of a ...
... crime of gendered violence that the available statistics for female infanticide are conflicting. In 1998 the Indian Association for Women's Studies reports that 10,000 female fetuses are killed every year in India. The editorial of a ...
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... crime. Our own view is that in contemporary India the dowry system is not so much a hallowed tra- dition as a patriarchal capitalist means of devaluing daughters and daughters- in-law as worthless objects, a means by which the natal ...
... crime. Our own view is that in contemporary India the dowry system is not so much a hallowed tra- dition as a patriarchal capitalist means of devaluing daughters and daughters- in-law as worthless objects, a means by which the natal ...
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... crime and insists that it is a crime of violence by Lalli's married family. The activist Shyamkali challenges the very basis of population theory in her opening words to the victim's female neighbors, “It is said that when a nation's ...
... crime and insists that it is a crime of violence by Lalli's married family. The activist Shyamkali challenges the very basis of population theory in her opening words to the victim's female neighbors, “It is said that when a nation's ...
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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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