GENDER AND HISTORY

Book Details

• Author: Rekha Pande (ed.)

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• ISBN: 9788131609415

• Binding: Hardcover

• Release Date: 01-12-2018

• Pages: 332

• Languages: English

About the Book
In a patriarchal society, men predominantly occupy the public domain, while women are confined to the private domestic sphere. This distinction often leads to the marginalization of women’s roles in history, leaving a lack of substantial documentation about them. The book Gender and History challenges this notion and explores history from a feminist perspective, focusing on the significant yet neglected roles of women throughout various historical periods.

This collection features twenty-eight selected papers from the 12th Women’s World Congress held in Hyderabad in 2014. The essays in this book focus on different regions and timeframes and examine history from a feminist lens. The authors argue that women’s roles were shaped by patriarchal limitations, emphasizing that their roles are socially constructed within specific historical contexts rather than being universal. The book also examines how women, in their efforts to challenge inequalities, turn to history to understand the roots of their oppression and learn from past struggles.

Contents

• Introduction: Gender and History

• 1. Back to Basics: Patriarchy, Gender and Agency / Geraldine Forbes

• 2. From Princely Subjects to the Threshold of Postcolonial Dawn: The Long Journey of Women in Deccan during the Rule of the Asaf Jahis / Rekha Pande

• 3. Post Land Reform Era of Rural West Bengal: Gendered Access to Land Resources / Dipannita Bhattacharjee

• 4. Political Culture within Gendered Bracket: Bengal – Its History and Literature / Shruti Goswami

• 5. Contribution of Indian Female Instrumentalists in the Development of Musical Heritage of India / Dipanwita Tripathi Roy

• 6. Role of Gender Performance in the Construction of Body: The Case of Women’s Practices in Kalaripayattu – A Martial Art of Kerala / Ashitha M.

• 7. The Upper Cloth Movement in the Nineteenth Century Kerala Society / S. Archana

• 8. Women and Impurity in Medieval Kerala / Nimitha K.P.

• 9. Sukasaptati: A Study of Gender through Early Modern Telugu Literature / Kishore Kumar S.

• 10. Significance of Women in Sufi Traditions / Rashmi Batchu

• 11. Women, Witches and Woes / Namrata Handique

• 12. Women and the Changing Food Culture in Angami Naga Society / Vitsou Yano

• 13. Glorious Motherhood: An Existentialist Approach of Womanhood in Early Twentieth Century Bengal / Madhumita Tarafder

• 14. The Insurgent(’s) Wife: Reading Kaberi Kochari’s Account of Her Life in a Rebel’s Outfit / Mukuta Borah

• 15. Securing Livelihoods: Experiences of the Mothers of Ex-Combatants in Post-conflict Nepal / Luna K.C.

• 16. Making of ‘Progressive Indian Womanhood’: Missionary Attempts in Colonial Punjab / Manpreet Kaur

• 17. Sociocultural Restrictions and Establishment of Community Maternity Hospitals in Bombay Presidency (1886–1945) / Meherjyoti Sangle

• 18. Women’s Perceptions of Education in Colonial Maharashtra / Meshram Pradhnya Prabhu

• 19. Medieval Textile Production and Women: The Unacknowledged Labour Force / T. Prathima

• 20. Gandhi on Women Empowerment: Equality and Individuality / Himanshu Bourai

• 21. A Micro Study of Women in Underworld: An Indian Perspective / Tumpa Mukherjee

• 22. ‘Baby Wife, Girl Mother, Virgin Widow’: The Body of the Hindu Girl Child in Colonial Bengal / Chandrava Chakravarty

• 23. Women Stereotypes in the Naxal Movement in India / Anjana Singh

• 24. Women and Famines: Their Experiences, Roles and Responses: A Case Study of North-western Provinces and Awadh / Seema Srivastava

• 25. Khas-Brahmin Women in Feudal Sikkim as Reflected in the Folk Compositions / Rajen Upadhyay

• 26. Health Propaganda: The Role of National Baby and Health Weeks in Colonial South India / V. Raj Mahammadh

• 27. Commodification, Exploitation and Survival: A Glimpse of African American Women in the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) / Ann Denkler

• 28. The Modern-National Language Debate and Tawaifs of Late Colonial India / Meenal Tula

About the Author / Editor
Rekha Pande is a Professor in the Department of History and a Joint Faculty in the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Hyderabad. She was the Director and Chair of the 12th Women’s World Congress (2014) held in Hyderabad. She is the founding member of two Centres for Women’s Studies and has written extensively in the fields of history and women’s studies. Pande has authored 12 books and over 150 articles published in national and international journals. She has also been the editor of several notable journals and has presented keynote addresses at various conferences worldwide.