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Tradition and Modern...
Tradition and Modernity
Essays on Women of India by: Atashee Chatterjee Sinha , SashinunglaThis anthology explores the lived experiences and positioning of women in diverse Indian social, religious and cultural contexts. It deals with issues varying from the intricacies of the gender concepts embedded in contemporary traditionmodernity debates to detailed consideration of women currents of thought, action and life and the problem of understanding that they throw up.
₹495.00
ISBN: 9788192611419
Year Of Publication: 2015
Edition: 1st edition
Pages : viii, 176
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 23
Weight: 400
The anthology Tradition and Modernity: Essays on Women of India includes essays ranging from the philosophical and analytical to the descriptive and the explorative and the experimental perspectives. It explores the lived experiences and positioning of women in diverse Indian social, religious and cultural contexts. The essays deal with issues varying from the intricacies of the gender concepts embedded in contemporary traditionmodernity debates to detailed consideration of women currents of thought, action and life and the problem of understanding that they throw up.
While a majority of the papers rightly reflect on the unequal and oppressive situation of the women in highly patriarchal and hierarchical settings, yet there are quite a few which sensitively touch upon the theme of human spirit and the beauty of love and relationships between man and woman in the midst of caste and gender hierarchies. There is reflection on the theme of the growing awareness about the women, environment and development, particularly the relationship between violence of nature and women.
This collection of writings will appeal to readers of all hues as well as students and scholars of culture and religion, in particular of India, gender equality, democracy and difference and feminist theory.
Preface
Introduction
Sashinungla
1. Middle-Class Women in Colonial Rural Bengal: An Analysis on the Basis of Ashapurna Devis
Pratham Pratisruti
Ratna Dutta Sharma and Jaya Karmakar
2. Nacani Artiste Sindhubala Devi: Her Life and Philosophy
Arun Mahata
3. Women in Different Forms of Marriage in Ancient India
Gargi Goswami
4. Gender Differences in Early Mind-reading: A Short Study from India
Maushumi Guha and Debosree Tarafder Jana
5. ManWoman Relationship: Problems and Prospects in India
Atashee Chatterjee Sinha
6. Development, Nature and Women: Some Reflections on Vandana Shivas View
Jhuma Chakraborty
7. Women in the Eyes of Buddhism
Madhumita Chattopadhyay
8. Gender, Tradition and Modernity: A Critical Feminist Analytic
Sashinungla
Contributors
Index