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Book Inner Recesses  Outer Spaces

Download or read book Inner Recesses Outer Spaces written by Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Performing the Self

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  • Author : Katie Barclay
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-14
  • ISBN : 1317611632
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Performing the Self written by Katie Barclay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the self is ‘performed’, created through action rather than having a prior existence, has been an important methodological intervention in our understanding of human experience. It has been particularly significant for studies of gender, helping to destabilise models of selfhood where women were usually defined in opposition to a male norm. In this multidisciplinary collection, scholars apply this approach to a wide array of historical sources, from literature to art to letters to museum exhibitions, which survive from the medieval to modern periods. In doing so, they explore the extent that using a model of performativity can open up our understanding of women’s lives and sense of self in the past. They highlight the way that this method provides a significant critique of power relationships within society that offers greater agency to women as historical actors and offers a challenge to traditional readings of women’s place in society. An innovative and wide-ranging compilation, this book provides a template for those wishing to apply performativity to women’s lives in historical context. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Book Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Download or read book Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay written by Sakuntala Narasimhan and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Freedom

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  • Author : Nico Slate
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2024-07-15
  • ISBN : 082299139X
  • Pages : 519 pages

Download or read book The Art of Freedom written by Nico Slate and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender, nation, and race, her efforts spanned social movements and played a leading role in the creation of modern India and the development of the Global South. In The Art of Freedom, Nico Slate showcases new archival materials to document Kamaladevi’s campaign to become the first woman elected to provincial office; her confrontation with Gandhi that helped open the salt protests of 1930 to women; her leadership of the All India Women’s Conference and the Congress Socialist Party; her pioneering work with refugees during the Partition of India in 1947; the major impact she had on the arts in postcolonial India; and her own career on the stage and screen. Slate also draws upon underexplored details from her personal life, providing new context for her experiences as a child widow, her remarriage to the mercurial actor/poet Harin Chattopadhyay, and her divorce (among the first civil divorces in modern India). Taken as a whole, Kamaladevi’s life offers a uniquely revealing vantage point on the making of modern India—a vantage point that centers the interconnections between struggles often seen as distinct, and that reminds us of the full promise of Indian democracy.

Book Elise Boulding  A Pioneer in Peace Research  Peacemaking  Feminism  Future Studies and the Family

Download or read book Elise Boulding A Pioneer in Peace Research Peacemaking Feminism Future Studies and the Family written by J. Russell Boulding and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of four volumes honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. This first anthology documents the breadth of Elise Boulding’s contributions to Peace Research, Peacemaking, Feminism, Future Studies, and Sociology of the Family. Known as the “matriarch” of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the fields of peace education, future studies, feminism, and sociology of the family, and as a prominent leader in the peace movement and the Society of Friends.

Book Women and Politics

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  • Author : Kai Padilla
  • Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
  • Release : 2018-12-16
  • ISBN : 1839474009
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Women and Politics written by Kai Padilla and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2018-12-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. Health Psychology is concerned with understanding how biology, behavior, and social context influence health and illness. Health psychologists work alongside other medical professionals in clinical settings, work on behaviour change in public health promotion, teach at universities, and conduct research. For example, chronically occurring environmental stressors affecting the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, cumulatively, can harm health. Health psychology also concerns itself with bettering the lives of individuals with terminal illness. When there is little hope of recovery, health psychologist therapists can improve the quality of life of the patient by helping the patient recover at least some of his or her psychological well-being. Health psychologists are also concerned with providing therapeutic services for the bereaved. The theoretical and conceptual input of the book in the health areas will prove quite beneficial for students and researchers whereas the ideas and research questions raised in the book will surely provoke the scientists for fulfilling heuristic function.

Book Citizens of Everywhere

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  • Author : Rosalind Parr
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-10-31
  • ISBN : 1009032410
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Citizens of Everywhere written by Rosalind Parr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens of Everywhere traces the international careers of a cohort of extraordinary Indian women leaders during the final decades of colonial rule. Working in pursuit of the dual goals of Indian independence and women's rights, the women featured in this book established productive transnational connections to gain influence on the world stage, all against the backdrop of momentous events in India and beyond. In doing so, they contributed a distinct set of ideas to global conversations about rights and citizenship. By bringing this transnational activism to light, the author offers new perspectives on Indian nationalism. More broadly the book establishes Indian women as actors in the global histories of women's rights and international movements during the era of decolonisation.

Book Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures  Religions  Powers

Download or read book Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures Religions Powers written by A. Richards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest.

Book Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic

Download or read book Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic written by Achyut Chetan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with the momentous task of demolishing the prejudices attached with the phrase 'founding fathers' that has held an immense sway over constitutional interpretation. It shows that women members of the Indian Constituent Assembly had painstakingly co-authored a Constitution that embodied a moral imagination developed by years of feminist politics. It traces the genealogies of several constitutional provisions to argue that, without the interventions of these women framers, the Constitution would hardly have a much poorer document of rights and statecraft that it is. Situating these interventions in the larger trajectory of Indian feminism in which they are rooted, in the nationalist discourse with which they perpetually negotiated, and in the larger human rights discourse of the 1940s, the book shows that the women members of the Indian Constituent Assembly were much more than the 'founding mothers' of a republic.

Book Dwelling in the Archive

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  • Author : Antoinette M. Burton
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780195144253
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Dwelling in the Archive written by Antoinette M. Burton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of the writings of three 20th century Indian women, this book explores how the memoirs, fictions, and histories written by women can be read as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.

Book The White Woman s Other Burden

Download or read book The White Woman s Other Burden written by Kumari Jayawardena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.

Book Western Women and Imperialism

Download or read book Western Women and Imperialism written by Nupur Chaudhuri and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and (primarily British) imperial history, in that many of the essays explore problems of cross-cultural interaction that have been heretofore ignored." --Nancy Fix Anderson "A challenging anthology in which a multiplicity of authors sheds new light on the waves of missionaries, 'memsahibs, ' nurses--and feminists." --Ms. "... a long-overdue engagement with colonial discourse and feminism.... excellent essays..." --The Year's Work in Critical Cultural Theory

Book Performing Self Performing Gender  Reading the lives of Women Performers in Colonial India

Download or read book Performing Self Performing Gender Reading the lives of Women Performers in Colonial India written by Sheetala Bhat and published by Manipal Universal Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the shifting identity of the female performer in India, starting from the late 19th century to the early years of independence, through the study of autobiographies and memoirs. It attempts to make visible the actress figure by entering the history of performance, guided by the voice of the female performer. The discussion on performing woman in this book spans across the performing traditions of the tawaif, actresses in public theatre, early Indian film actresses, and actresses in the Indian People’s Theatre and the Prithvi Theatre.

Book M V  Kamath  a Journalist at Large

Download or read book M V Kamath a Journalist at Large written by M. V. Kamath and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M.V. Kamath, with four decades of rich and varied experiences, has traveled the world with an eye for people and a nose for news. He has met an amazingly wide range of characters from all walks of life from royalty to Nobel laureates, from film and theatre personalities to statesmen and politicians. His meetings have resulted in this collection of anecdotes some sad, some outright funny, and some simply staid. His writing in no way borders on gossip, but rather delves into the humanity of each subject. Journalism opened up vast avenues for M.V. Kamath. He lived a life of pleasant surprises, wondering what the next day held for him. The short pieces in this book are a minute collection of material that would probably fill up 10 such books. However, this collection powerfully conveys his experiences of pain and joy that run through all his encounters. He views both these universal experiences as ephemeral. This fleeting aspect of life binds each anecdote to the other, thus elevating story-telling to a fine art, that doesn t sound forced or acquired, and comes straight from the heart.

Book State  Law and Gender

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shreya Roy
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2023-12-12
  • ISBN : 1837651434
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book State Law and Gender written by Shreya Roy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Women s Education

Download or read book The Politics of Women s Education written by Jill Ker Conway and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third World women and men discuss efforts to improve the position of women through education

Book Press Release

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  • Author : United States. Mission to the United Nations
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Press Release written by United States. Mission to the United Nations and published by . This book was released on with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: