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The politics of representation and the “ideal Malayalee woman”: Remembering Malayalam women’s magazines of the early 20th-century Kerala, South India
Sruthi Vinayan,Merin Simi Raj +1 more
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In this paper, the early-20th-century Malayalam women's magazines of Kerala were analyzed in terms of their politics of representation. These magazines emerged at a time when Kerala was on the cusp of mod...Abstract:
This article analyses the early-20th-century Malayalam women’s magazines of Kerala in terms of their politics of representation. These magazines emerged at a time when Kerala was on the cusp of mod...read more
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Matriliny Transformed: Family, Law and Ideology in Twentieth Century Travancore:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors have discussed the dowry system in historical, social, political and scriptural contexts, and contextualized it in a non-cliched language.
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colonialism, nationalism, and colonialized women: the contest in India
TL;DR: The nationalist response to the treatment of women in India by identifying a scriptural tradition was to construct a reformed tradition and defend it on the grounds of modernity as mentioned in this paper, creating the image of a new woman who was superior to Western women, traditional Indian women, and low-class women.
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Negotiating women’s social space: public debates on gender in early modern Kerala, India*
TL;DR: The formation of modern gender identities in early-twentieth-century Kerala was deeply implicated in the project of shaping governable subjects who were, at one and the same time 'free' and already inserted into modern institutions.
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Matriliny Transformed: Family, Law and Ideology in Twentieth Century Travancore
TL;DR: A Modern Travancore Matriliny in the Region Legislative Interventions Women, Men and Ideas Profiles from the Past Two Women Look Back - Ponnamma, Bhargavi Amma as discussed by the authors.
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Matriliny Transformed: Family, Law and Ideology in Twentieth Century Travancore:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors have discussed the dowry system in historical, social, political and scriptural contexts, and contextualized it in a non-cliched language.