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. Dr Sen demonstrates how
- in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - 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, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides
insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived
as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to
address their problems and they remained on the margins of
organized political protest. The study will make a signficant
contribution to the understanding of the social and economic
history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
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