Tensions of Empire

Etudiant les debats entourant les Child Marriage Restraint Act de 1929, cet article met en evidence les paralleles des distinctions de classe entre la classe moyenne des nationalistes de la Reforme Indienne et la classe moyenne Britannique tels qu'ils furent exprimes dans la construction legale et medicale des corps sexues et notamment du corps feminin

Modernising the Motherhood Archetype: Public Health Models and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929:

Indian women participated in the nationalist movement not only in the public domain but also from the domestic domain. A large majority of women during the movement retained their traditional roles ...

The Domestic Sphere as a Political Site : A Study of Women in the Indian Nationalist Movement

The utility of the Zimbabwean Domestic Violence Act : Christian and Muslim women's experiences

Current research has rather tended to neglect the print culture of nineteenth-century British India and its contribution towards the formation of gender ideologies. This chapter attempts to scrutinise the clamorous voices of print culture, newspapers and popular periodicals as well as copious published works, and to unravel the complex and sometimes contradictory web of constructions that these built around the gendered colonised.

Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900

Colonial as well as Indian nationalist concern for so-called female issues was to a certain extent due to the significance of the “female discourse” within the colonial conflict which was primarily articulated by men Women's interests clearly came second Here the concept of the “private sphere” is singled out in order to investigate the development of gender stereotypes in a changing historical context The British and Bengali discourse on gender was marked by culturally specific notions of femininity and masculinity Despite these differences, women's identification with the domestic sphere allowed British and Bengali men to acknowledge the situation of women when it suited their wider political aims, but to banish women — figuratively speaking — to their zenana when legislative innovations or female activism threatened to clash with male political or patriarchal prerogatives

Dagmar Engels

Papers

The limits of gender ideology: Bengali women, the colonial state, and the private sphere, 1890–1930