Women and work in precolonial India : a reader /: a reader. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy.
• Editors: Vijaya Ramaswamy
• Contents: Foreword - Aparna Basu; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Vijaya Ramaswamy; WOMEN AND THE HOUSEHOLD: CANONICAL PRESCRIPTIONS AND THEIR FEMINIST CRITIQUE; The Daily Duties of Women - Julia Leslie; Position and Status of Women in the Upanisads - T R Sharma; Woman in the Household - M A Indra; Economic Rights of Ancient Indian Women - Sukumari Bhattacharji; Dynamics of Women’s Work in the Sastric Sources: Household and Beyond - Kavita Gaur; Tracking Economic Transitions: Tamil Women from Tribe to Caste and Changing Production Roles - Vijaya Ramaswamy; The Question of Women’s ‘Agency’: Women, Work and Domesticity in Early Textual Traditions - Jaya Tyagi; WOMEN AND WORK IN EARLY TEXTUAL TRADITIONS; The Woman Worker - I B Horner; Of Dasas and Karmakaras: Servile Labour in Ancient India - Uma Chakravarti; Women and Work in Kautiliya's Arthasastra - Upasana Dhankar; WOMEN AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES: WOMEN’S PROPERT RIGHTS; Proprietary Rights during Coverture - Anant Sadashiv Altekar; Proprietary Rights: Inheritance and Partition - Anant Sadashiv Altekar; The Legal Status of Women: Their Right of Inheritance - M A Indra; Property Rights of Women in Ancient India - N N Bhattachar; Turmeric Land: Women’s Property Rights in Tamil Society since Early Medieval Times - Kanakalatha Mukund; Property Rights of Women in Medieval Andhra - A Padma; CONTEXTUALISING WOMEN’S WORK IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN; State of the Field: Perspectives on Women and Work in Early South India - Vijaya Ramaswamy; Women’s Professions in Medieval Andhra - A Padma; Temple Women and Work in Medieval Keralam - Anna Varghese; Gender, Caste and Labour: Ideological and Material Structure of Widowhood - Uma Chakravarti; Work and Gender in Mughal India - Shireen Moosvi; DEVARADIYA: HAND-MAIDENS OF GOD OR SEX-WORKERS?; Courtesans - Vatsyayana Mallanaga; Temple Women as Temple Servants - Leslie Orr; In the Business of Kama: Prostitution in Classical Sanskrit Literature from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Centuries - Shalini Shah; Prostitution in Ancient India - Sukumari Bhattacharji;
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (484 pages)
• Subjects: 331.40954; Women employees -- India -- History; Unpaid labor -- India -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789351507420; 9351507424
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