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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... woman in Kathiawar who was accused of killing her newborn twin daughters. The Baee Nathee case was used by the British reformers to discipline the wealthy and powerful infanti- cidal clans by making an example of the tribal woman who ...
... woman in Kathiawar who was accused of killing her newborn twin daughters. The Baee Nathee case was used by the British reformers to discipline the wealthy and powerful infanti- cidal clans by making an example of the tribal woman who ...
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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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... woman, The Hindu, November 1994 The selective killing of the female fetus in postcolonial India has received serious ... woman's body as object and to name femicide as informed choice and family planning. This women's collective eschews ...
... woman, The Hindu, November 1994 The selective killing of the female fetus in postcolonial India has received serious ... woman's body as object and to name femicide as informed choice and family planning. This women's collective eschews ...
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... woman devaluation, instead they offer a stop-gap solution. We believe in a woman's choice and her ability to be self-determining; we recognize that the small family norm is generally less oppressive on the wife/mother, and generally ...
... woman devaluation, instead they offer a stop-gap solution. We believe in a woman's choice and her ability to be self-determining; we recognize that the small family norm is generally less oppressive on the wife/mother, and generally ...
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... woman is markedly different from middle-class woman's discourse about children. While the latter is concerned about the effect of frequent pregnancies on maternal health, childbirth, and child rearing, the poor woman has many chil- dren ...
... woman is markedly different from middle-class woman's discourse about children. While the latter is concerned about the effect of frequent pregnancies on maternal health, childbirth, and child rearing, the poor woman has many chil- dren ...
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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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