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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India

Sen, Samita

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, Book 3

EconomicsIndian & South Asian HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0521453631
ISBN13: 9780521453639
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 6 1999
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.42
Language: English
Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.

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