Female Infanticide in India - A Feminist Cultural History (Hardcover)

"Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonical India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India the authors closely examine the progressive British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2005
Authors:	Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar • Renu Dube • Reena Dube
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	334
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-6327-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7914-6327-3
Barcode:	9780791463277

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!