Images of women in Maharashtrian society /
"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 Using historical documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and photographs, interviews, and conversations from the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
c1998.
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| Summary: | "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 Using historical documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and photographs, interviews, and conversations from the twentieth, the book constructs images of the conditions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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Maharashtra: Culture and Society held in April, 1991 at the Arizona State University. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0791436594 (alk. paper) 0791436608 (pbk. : alk. paper) |