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State Univ of New York Pr, Date: 1998. Hardcover. New. 286 pages. 9.75x6.25x0.75 inches. 1998. State Univ of New York Pr ISBN 0791436594 9780791436592 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0791436594, ISBN13: 9780791436592, [publisher: State Univ of New York Pr] Hardcover 286 pages. 9.75x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1998]

ISBN10: 0791436594, ISBN13: 9780791436592, [publisher: State University of New York Press] Hardcover Hardcover. This volume, a companion to Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion (SUNY Press, 1996), approaches more closely the realities of women's lives. Using historical documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and photographs, interviews, and conversations from the twentieth, the book constructs images of the conditions of women's lives in the modern state and traditional region of Maharashtra over the past three hundred years. The authors search for the ideas, understandings, and judgments that have shaped those conditions, for the conscious and unconscious images that have made women's lives what they have been. The contributors examine ways femininity and the power, status, and potential of women have been viewed; actual women emphasizing ideas about women. Understanding ideas of this kind is a necessary first step toward understanding, and perhaps eventually affecting, the actualities of women's lives. This book is divided into three parts. Part I is based on documentary sources from the eighteenth century. Part II explores the subjects and terms of the conservatism versus reform debate in Maharashtra, and thus complements recent studies on images of women in Bengal and other parts of North India during the colonial period. Part III, which presents contemporary images of women in Maharashtra, in ...

State Univ of New York Pr 1998 Hardcover New 286 pages. 9.75x6.25x0.75 inches.