当前位置:在线查询网 > 图书大全 > Wives, Widows, and Concubines

Wives, Widows, and Concubines_图书大全


请输入要查询的图书:

可以输入图书全称,关键词或ISBN号

Wives, Widows, and Concubines

ISBN: 9780253219725

出版年: 2008-6

页数: 192

定价: $ 24.80

内容简介


The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed study of the family in Tamil history, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy. Among professional and mercantile elites, the conjugal relationship displaced the extended family as the focal point of household dynamics. Conjugality provided a language with which women laid claim to new rights, even as the structures of the conjugal family reinscribed women's oppression inside and outside marriage.

关键词:Wives Widows and Concubines