Women and work in precolonial India: a reader

Contributor(s):

Ramaswamy, Vijaya [Editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Los Angeles Sage 2016Description: xxxv, 446 pISBN:

9789351507413

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DDC classification:

305.40954 W6

Summary: Women and work is an important dimension of the ongoing debate on gender parity. This book is a compilation of essays related to traditional perceptions of women’s work juxtaposed with recent feminist writings on women’s space in India’s labour history. The essays highlight the points and counterpoints of the ongoing debate on the nature, quantification and monetary valuation of women’s work. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/women-and-work-in-precolonial-india/book250298#9789351507413

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Table of Contents:

Section I. Women and the household: canonical prescriptions and their feminist critique
1 The Daily Duties of Women
2 Position and Status of Women in the Upanisads
3 Woman in the Household
4 Economic Rights of Ancient Indian Women
5 Dynamics of Women’s Work in the Sastric Sources: Household and Beyond
6 Tracking Economic Transitions: Tamil Women from Tribe to Caste and Changing Production Roles
7 The Question of Women’s ‘Agency’: Women, Work and Domesticity in Early Textual Traditions

Section II. Women and work in early textual traditions
8 The Woman Worker
9 Of Dasas and Karmakaras: Servile Labour in Ancient India
10 Women and Work in Kautiliya's Arthasastra

Section III. Women and economic resources: women’s property rights
11 Proprietary Rights during Coverture
12 Proprietary Rights: Inheritance and Partition
13 The Legal Status of Women: Their Right of Inheritance
14 Property Rights of Women in Ancient India
15 Turmeric Land: Women’s Property Rights in Tamil Society since Early Medieval Times
16 Property Rights of Women in Medieval Andhra

Section IV. Contextualising women’s work in the public domain
17 State of the Field: Perspectives on Women and Work in Early South India
18 Women’s Professions in Medieval Andhra
19 Temple Women and Work in Medieval Keralam
20 Gender, Caste and Labour: Ideological and Material Structure of Widowhood
21 Work and Gender in Mughal India

Section V. Devaradiya: hand-maidens of god or sex-workers?
22 Courtesans
23 Temple Women as Temple Servants
24 In the Business of Kama: Prostitution in Classical Sanskrit Literature from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Centuries
25 Prostitution in Ancient India

Women and work is an important dimension of the ongoing debate on gender parity. This book is a compilation of essays related to traditional perceptions of women’s work juxtaposed with recent feminist writings on women’s space in India’s labour history. The essays highlight the points and counterpoints of the ongoing debate on the nature, quantification and monetary valuation of women’s work.

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/women-and-work-in-precolonial-india/book250298#9789351507413

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