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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... Female Child under Population Discourse Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed ...
... Female Child under Population Discourse Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed ...
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... child. Yet as women scholars we could not help but recoil in horror when we recalled the multitude of allusions in novels, films, and everyday conversations that casually referred to girl child murder. We then began a journey to uncover ...
... child. Yet as women scholars we could not help but recoil in horror when we recalled the multitude of allusions in novels, films, and everyday conversations that casually referred to girl child murder. We then began a journey to uncover ...
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... Child murder is a capital offense in nineteenth-century England but female child murder is penalized by fines in the British colony of India. From the politics of discovery and naming and the unequal relations between center and ...
... Child murder is a capital offense in nineteenth-century England but female child murder is penalized by fines in the British colony of India. From the politics of discovery and naming and the unequal relations between center and ...
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... female infanticide with the first census taking in colonial India that forges the discursive inscription of female ... child as a full human being capable of contributing to the community, the nation, and the world. We oppose a world ...
... female infanticide with the first census taking in colonial India that forges the discursive inscription of female ... child as a full human being capable of contributing to the community, the nation, and the world. We oppose a world ...
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... woman devaluation and treats the girl child as an unproductive consumer of family wealth. Therefore, throughout this book we have been keenly attuned to the ways in which the practice of female infanticide and the phenomenon of woman ...
... woman devaluation and treats the girl child as an unproductive consumer of family wealth. Therefore, throughout this book we have been keenly attuned to the ways in which the practice of female infanticide and the phenomenon of woman ...
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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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