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Inventing subjects : studies in hegemony, patriarchy and colonialism

Author:Himani Bannerji

Summary:A Marxist-Feminist perspective on the development of socio-cultural formations in colonial India.

Print Book, English, 2001

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: Anthem Press, London, 2001

Series:

Anthem South Asian studies

Physical Description:222 pages ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9781843310730, 9781843310723, 1843310732, 1843310724

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:223427601

Subjects:

Anthropologie marxiste

Feminist theory

Marxist anthropology

Social change India

Théorie féministe

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Foreword; Inventing Subject: An Introduction; Writing 'India', Doing 'Ideology': William Jones' Construction of India as an Ideological Category; Beyond the Ruling Category to What Actually Happens: Notes on James Mill's Historiography in 'The History of British India'; Age of Consent and Hegemonic Social Reform; Attired in Virtue: Discourse on Shame (lajja) and Clothing of the Gentlewoman (bhadramahila) in Colonial Bengal; Fashioning a Self: Educational Proposals for and by Women in Popular Magazines in Colonial Bengal; Re-Generation: Mothers and Daughters in Bengal's Literary Space; References; Index