Research Catalog

Title

Women and work in precolonial India : a reader / edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy.

Publication

Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vijaya Ramaswamy

Description

xxxv, 446 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Arbeit, ..
• Börngen, ..
• Women > India > History
• Occupations > India > History
• Women > India > Social conditions
• Women > India > Economic conditions
• Occupations
• Women
• Women > Economic conditions
• Women > Social conditions
• Devadāsī
• Eigentum
• Erbrecht
• Prostitution
• India > History
• India
• Indien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Section I: Women and the Household: Canonical Prescriptions and Their Feminist Critique -- Chapter 1: The Daily Duties of Women -- Chapter 2: Position and Status of Women in the Upaniṣads -- Chapter 3: Woman in the Household -- Chapter 4: Economic Rights of Ancient Indian Women -- Chapter 5: Dynamics of Women's Work in the Śāstric Sources: Household and Beyond -- Chapter 6: Tracking Economic Transitions: Tamil Women from Tribe to Caste and Changing Production Roles -- Chapter 7: The Question of Women's 'Agency': Women, Work and Domesticity in Early Textual Traditions
• Section II: Women and Work in Early Textual Traditions -- Chapter 8: The Woman Worker -- Chapter 9: Of Dasas and Karmakaras: Servile Labour in Ancient India -- Chapter 10: Women and Work in Kautilīya's Arthaśāstra
• Section III: Women and Economic Resources: Women's Property Rights -- Chapter 11: Proprietary Rights during Coverture -- Chapter 12: Proprietary Rights: Inheritance and Partition -- Chapter 13: The Legal Status of Women: Their Right of Inheritance -- Chapter 14: Property Rights of Women in Ancient India -- Chapter 15: Turmeric Land: Women's Property Rights in Tamil Society since Early Medieval Times -- Chapter 16: Property Rights of Women in Medieval Andhra
• Section IV: Contextualising Women's Work in the Public Domain -- Chapter 17: State of the Field: Perspectives on Women and Work in Early South India -- Chapter 18: Women's Profession in Medieval Andhra -- Chapter 19: Temple Women and Work in Medieval Kēraḷam -- Chapter 20: Gender, Caste and Labour: Ideological and Material Structure of Widowhood -- Chapter 21: Work and Gender in Mughal India
• Section V: Devaradiya: Hand-maidens of God or Sex-workers? -- Chapter 22: Courtesans -- Chapter 23: Temple Women as Temple Servants -- Chapter 24 In the Business of Kama: Prostitution in the Classical Sanskrit Literature from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Centuries -- Prostitution in Ancient India.

ISBN

• 9789351507413
• 9351507416
• 9789351507406 (canceled/invalid)
• 9789351507420 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016034230

OCLC

• ocn953224440
• 953224440
• SCSB-1873925

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library