Dowry Murder: Reinvestigating A Cultural
Dowry Murder: Reinvestigating A Cultural

Author: Veena Talwar Oldenburg

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0143063995

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"Dowry in India has long been blamed for the murder of wives and female infants. Reconstructing the history of dowry in this highly provocative book, Veena Talwar Oldenburg argues that dowry is not always the motive for these killings as is widely believed; nor are these crimes a product of Indian culture or caste system. In the pre-colonial period, dowry, an institution managed by women to enable them to establish their independence, was a safety net. As a consequence of massive economic and societal upheaval brought on by British rule, however, women's control of the system diminished and dowry became extortion." -- Page 4 of cover.

Dowry Murder
Dowry Murder

Author: Veena Talwar Oldenburg

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780195150728

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Oldenburg argues that dowry murder is not about dowry per se nor is it rooted in an Indian culture or caste system that encourages violence against women. Rather, dowry murder can be traced directly to the influences of the British colonial era.

Dowry-murders in India
Dowry-murders in India

Author: Jane McVay Rudd

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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Patriarchy in India is structured within the joint-family where land is inherited only by sons. Women are given dowry upon marriage but it represents little material wealth to them because much of it is given to the joint-family. In the past, the meaning of dowry was largely religious and symbolic. With the introduction to a cash economy in India and the economic crisis of the 1970s, dowry and dowry-murders have increased, becoming a form of ready cash to be used by the groom and his family. Dowry-murder is an outgrowth of the commercialization and desacralization of dowry and the resulting decrease in women's status. This paper argues that the position of Indian women in the patriarchal family and the impact of current socioeconomic forces on marriage and dowry have led to the dowry-murder phenomenon.

Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India
Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India

Author: J. Belliappa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-08-23

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1137319224

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Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

Dancing with the River
Dancing with the River

Author: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0300189575

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With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes.” Focusing on chars—the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal—the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.

Gender, Sexuality and the UN's SDGs
Gender, Sexuality and the UN's SDGs

Author: Drew Dalton

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 3031310462

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Against the backdrop of Covid-19, this edited volume will utilize a gendered lens to explore the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a clear focus on challenging the omission of sexuality in relation to the SDGs as well as analyzing the ways in which the SDGs are also equally relevant for Western countries. While acknowledging the importance of these goals, contributors unpack the exclusion of marginalized genders and sexualities as well as how popular media and social media contribute to the wider understanding of issues of gender and sexuality and the SDGs. This volume also dispels assumptions about the irrelevance of SDGs to countries in the West, with a particular focus on the UK. Chapters examine a variety of topics including: HIV/AIDS, sex work, global migration, climate change and environmental sustainability, poverty, education, and sexual harassment. This collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students across Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Education, Development Studies and Sustainability Studies.

Window on Humanity
Window on Humanity

Author: Conrad Phillip Kottak

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780073258935

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Written by one of the prominent scholars in the field, this concise, up-to-date introduction to general anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics and contemporary changes in the field. Since no single or monolithic theoretical perspective orients this book, instructors with a wide range of views and approaches can use it effectively. The combination of brevity and readability make Window on Humanity a perfect match for general anthropology courses that use readings or ethnographies along with a main text.

Sikhism and Women
Sikhism and Women

Author: Doris R. Jakobsh

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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Sikh identity involves intermeshing of several historical and present strands of consciousness. As in other religions, the situation of Sikh women and their experiences are conditioned by multiple factors including identity, socio-economic status, and the political context. The collection focuses on three distinct themes texts, conditions of Sikh women in India, and women in diasporic contexts dealing with women's lives and religious experiences. The essays discuss the way aesthetics and religion merges in the unitary experience of the sacred in Sikh tradition. They also explore gender in Sikh theology and society. One of the first works of its kind to bring together women and being Sikh, this volume engages with issues like religion, rituals, literature, sexuality, and nationalism and their link with identity-formation of Sikh women. It analyses significant issues of gender and religion and provides an empirical as well as theoretical structure to the debate. In their introduction, Doris Jakobsh and Eleanor Nesbitt explore the myriad themes of studies on Sikh women an emerging area for historians, sociologists, and anthropologists alike. They outline major developments and also break new ground with empirical evidence from their research.

Rhetoric and Reality
Rhetoric and Reality

Author: Avril Ann Powell

Publisher: School of Oriental & African Studies University of London

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Revised version of papers presented at the two-day Workshop on Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia, held a Dhaka in December 2002