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

01 Jan 1989-Womens Studies International Forum (Pergamon)-Vol. 12, Iss: 4, pp 425-437
TL;DR: This article investigated the development of gender stereotypes in a changing historical context and found that 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 to their zenana when legislative innovations or female activism threatened to clash with male political or patriarchal prerogatives.
Abstract: 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
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TL;DR: 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 and la clesse moyennes Britannique tels qu'ils furent exprimes dans la construction legale et medicale des corps sexues and notamment du corps feminin this paper.
Abstract: 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

24 citations

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TL;DR: A large majority of women during the movement retained their traditional roles as mentioned in this paper, and women participated in the nationalist movement not only in the public domain but also from the domestic domain, and a large number of women were employed as domestic workers.
Abstract: 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 ...

18 citations

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01 Nov 2012
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TL;DR: This paper examined the clamorous voices of print culture, newspapers and popular periodicals as well as copious published works, and unraveled the complex and sometimes contradictory web of constructions that these built around the gendered colonised.
Abstract: 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.

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01 Jan 1983
TL;DR: In Languages of Class as mentioned in this paper, Stedman Jones draws a distinction between two conceptions of class: the everyday and commonplace perception of its pervasiveness in England, and the Marxist idea of its revolutionary significance.
Abstract: This collection of essays by Gareth Stedman Jones proposes a different way of seeing both historians' analytical conceptions of 'class', and the actual manifestation of class in the history of English politics and English culture since the 1830s. As the progenitor of the first generally acknowledged working-class movement, the English working class provided the initial empirical basis for not only the original Marxist theory of modern industry and proletarian revolution, but also subsequent historians' reactions against, or adaptations of, the Marxist theory of class. In Languages of Class Gareth Stedman Jones draws a distinction between two conceptions of class: the everyday and commonplace perception of its pervasiveness in England, and the Marxist idea of its revolutionary significance. He proceeds to challenge the predominant conceptions of the meaning and development of 'class consciousness' by stressing the political and discursive conditions in which particular languages appeared and receded. Among the themes of individual essays in the book are a rethinking of 'the making of the English working class' and the phenomenon of Chartism, a novel exploration of the formation and components of 'working-class culture', and, in the light of these, a new approach to understanding the history of the Labour Party.

384 citations

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01 Aug 1984
TL;DR: A brand new book of tales starring the endearing Jeremy James the little boy who never stops questioning the world - and seeing it from humorous angles is presented in this paper, where he learns to swim, holds a car boot sale, foils some tricycle thieves, saves an old lady, causes mayhem at a wedding and cuts his own hair among other things.
Abstract: A brand new book of tales starring the endearing Jeremy James the little boy who never stops questioning the world - and seeing it from humorous angles In this book Jeremy James learns to swim, holds a car boot sale, foils some tricycle thieves, saves an old lady, causes mayhem at a wedding and cuts his own hair among other things. There s something here for every reader

156 citations

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01 Jan 1973

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