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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... society and that most girls and women were socialized to accept the seeming naturalness of son-preference and its corollary, the devaluation of the life of the girl child. Yet as women scholars we could not help but recoil in horror ...
... society and that most girls and women were socialized to accept the seeming naturalness of son-preference and its corollary, the devaluation of the life of the girl child. Yet as women scholars we could not help but recoil in horror ...
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... societies. However, we did not design this book only as a critical requiem to the missing millions of women in India. We were invested in addressing the issues surrounding femicide with a view to opposing it. One of the questions that ...
... societies. However, we did not design this book only as a critical requiem to the missing millions of women in India. We were invested in addressing the issues surrounding femicide with a view to opposing it. One of the questions that ...
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... societies. This misconception has to be dismantled discursively and empirically. The discursive logic of this belief is to portray femicide simply as the resurgence of age-old practices of female infanticide, thus reinforcing the ...
... societies. This misconception has to be dismantled discursively and empirically. The discursive logic of this belief is to portray femicide simply as the resurgence of age-old practices of female infanticide, thus reinforcing the ...
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... society.5 The solutions to female fetus killing, hypothesized by current research on modern femicide, also tend toward economism. The economistic solution is family affluence on the principle that it is natural for a rich family to ...
... society.5 The solutions to female fetus killing, hypothesized by current research on modern femicide, also tend toward economism. The economistic solution is family affluence on the principle that it is natural for a rich family to ...
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... society and the environment, while rich nations and peoples of the world work hard at producing wealth and conserving the environment. These slo- gans are resuscitated in a speech by Ted Turner, the American media magnate, at a real ...
... society and the environment, while rich nations and peoples of the world work hard at producing wealth and conserving the environment. These slo- gans are resuscitated in a speech by Ted Turner, the American media magnate, at a real ...
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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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