The Subaltern Indian Woman, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Domination and Social Degradation
Coordonnateur : Misir Prem
This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women?s abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India.
This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian women?s cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy.The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917.
Preface.- Foreword.- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview: Indian Indentured Women a Human Agency.- Chapter 2: Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900.- Chapter 3:
Conceiving the Coolie Woman: Indentured Labour, Indian Women and Colonial Discourse.- Chapter 4: Female Indentured Labor in Suriname: For Better or for Worse?.- Chapter 5: The Position of Indian Women in Suriname.- Chapter 6: Kunti's Cry: Indentured Women on Fiji Plantations.- Chapter 7: Kunti, Lakshmibhai and the “Ladies”: Women's Labour and the Abolition of Indentured Emigration from India.- Chapter 8: Fallen through the Nationalist and Feminist Grids of Analysis: Political Campaigning of Indian Women against Indentured Labour Emigration.- Chapter 9: Constructing Visibility: Indian Women in the Jamaican Segment of the Indian Diaspora.- Chapter 10: “Time to Show Our True Colors”: The Gendered Politics of “Indianness” in Post-Apartheid South Africa.- Chapter 11: Reflexivity and The Diaspora: Indian Women in Post‐indenture Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius and South Africa.- Chapter 12: The Indo-Fijian Woman’s Story: Violence Against Women.
Professor Prem Misir, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Fiji, Fiji.
Contributing Authors:
Ashrufa Faruqee, formerly of St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, UK.
Brij V. Lal, Professor Emeritus, School of Culture, History and Language at Australian National University, Australia.
Indrani Sen, Associate Professor, Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi New Delhi, India.Karen A. Ray, formerly of Marianopolis College, Montreal, Canada.
Pieter Cornelis Emmer, former Professor of European Expansion and Migration, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
Rajesh Chandra, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of the South Pacific, Fiji.
Ravindra. K. Jain, formerly Professor of Social Anthropology and Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
India.Rosemarijn Hoefte, Professor in the History of Suriname, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Shobha Nijhawan, Associate Professor of Hindi Language and Literature at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA.
Verene A. Shepherd, Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society; Professor/University Director of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies and Professor of Social History at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies.
Documents the plight of indentured Indian women, how they are exploited and their fight against race, gender and class oppression abetted by the women of the Indian subcontinent
Expands the feminist perspective on the race, gender and class paradigm to include class power as the determinant of social interactions
A focused study on the impact of race, gender and class on Indian women in Fiji
Date de parution : 01-2019
Ouvrage de 292 p.
14.8x21 cm
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Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 11-2017
Ouvrage de 292 p.
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