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Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India - The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness (Paperback)
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Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India - The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness (Paperback)
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In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming
of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives
of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north
Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the
expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in
household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls
and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms,
eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive
circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later
nineteenth century remained agential figures, their activities came
to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal
skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the
multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century
discourses, elaborated in four different sites - forest, school,
household, and rooftops.
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