Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society) Book

Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demontrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry giving, 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.Read More

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  • 0521453631
  • 9780521453639
  • Samita Sen
  • 6 May 1999
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 286
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