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Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India

Book by Eliza F. Kent; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Christian Converts From Hinduism--India, South--History, Protestant Converts--India, South--History, Protestant Women--India, South--History, Women, Tamil--Religious Life--India, South--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Previous Scholarship on Women in India In the aftermath of the 1857 rebellion...of Indian troops, mostly in north India, mutinied against their British officers, the rulership of India passed from the English East India...
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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry

Book by Samita Sen; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Jute Industry--India--Bengal, Women--Employment--India--Bengal, Women--India--Bengal--Economic Conditions, Women--India--Bengal--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

Women Workers in the Bengal Jute...Association Bulletin, All India India Institute of Hygiene and Public...T Fawcett et al. eds. , Women in Cities of Asia: Migration...Alice, Land and Labour in India , Bombay, 1962. Throner...
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Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality

Book by Jyoti Puri; Routledge, 1999

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Gender Identity--India, Man-Woman Relationships--India, Sex Role--India, Women--India--Social Conditions

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...intensifying subordination of women. Exploring aspects of marriage...cross-caste concerns with women and marriage in her study of a village in south-central India. She suggests that in all...Gender, Caste and Class in India New Brunswick, N.J...
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Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India

Book by Laurie L. Patton; Oxford University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Dowry--India--History, Hindu Women--India--History, Hinduism--Social Aspects, Women's Rights--Religious Aspects--Hinduism, Women--India--Social Conditions, Women--Religious Aspects--Hinduism

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...geared toward the education of women as pujari s and as reciters...households that find the services of women equal to that of men. 2 And...perform the rites. As one woman pujari in a small temple in...Textual scholars working on women in those countries can and...to publishing their work in India, to reading Indian scholarship...
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We Are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India

Book by Ela R. Bhatt; Oxford University Press, 2006

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Self Employed Women's Association (Ahmad?Ab?Ad, India), Self-Employed Women--India, Working Poor--India

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...the bank for safekeep- ing by women who did not want their families...of their personal finances. Women gathered at the bank as if at...keeping a tight focus on the women themselves, we could build...supervision of the Reserve Bank of India and the State Registrar of Cooperatives...

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Journal Articles on: women in india

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The Women's Movement and the Press in India: The Construction of Female Foeticide as a Social Issue(1)

Journal article by Rashmi Luthra; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 22, 1999

Subjects:

Fetus--Crimes against, India--Social aspects, Mass media--India, Women--India

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...on Feminist Perspectives on Women, Health and Reproduction, Bombay, India. Patel, V. (1989a, January...endanger womens rights. Times of India. Patel, V. (1989b). Sex...sex-preselection tests in India: Modern techniques for femicide...Kranich, K. (1991). Woman as sign in television news...
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Why Are Some Women Political Active? the Household, Public Space, and Political Participation in India

Journal article by Pradeep Chhibber; International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2002

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India--Political aspects, India--Social aspects, Political participation--Social aspects, Women in politics--Social aspects

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...the 73d amendment. Whether women knew of the amendment or not...important finding relates to which women choose to contest elections. Whether a woman contests local elections or...position in the household. Women who can negotiate independent...these findings are unique to India or if similar phenomenon can...
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Reproductive Tract Infections among Young Married Women in Tamil Nadu, India

Journal article by Jasmin Helen Prasad, Sulochana Abraham, Kathleen M. Kurz, Valentina George, M.K. Lalitha, Renu John, M.N.R. Jayapaul, Nandini Shetty, Abraham Joseph; International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 31, 2005

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Married women--Health aspects, Married women--Surveys, Sexually transmitted diseases--Diagnosis, Sexually transmitted diseases--Surveys, Tamil Nadu, India

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...among Young Married Women in Tamil Nadu, India. by Jasmin Helen...gt;daggerAll women in this study were...Sources: Tamil Nadu, India -- present study...and MacPherson S, Women and Health: Tradition...Culture in Rural India, Brookfield, VT...
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Breaking Rural Bonds through Migration: The Failure of Development for Women in India

Journal article by Shobha Srinivasan; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 28, 1997

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India--Social aspects, Migration, Internal--Social aspects, Rural-urban migration--Social aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...candidate is economic, the rural women, in general, do not exercise...the men. Nine of the twelve women I interviewed in Palaya said...to the voting booth. As one woman said, "he tells me to place...directives of the men, and the women follow suit. Most of the slums in the big cities of India are tied to various political...
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Stories Based on Realities: Breast Cancer in India

Journal article by Jayashree Thatte-Bhat; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003

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Breast cancer, India, Women, Writers

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...interviewed hundreds of women in Canada who had breast...Among all these women, did you meet any woman whose daughter couldnt...with the other?" "In India, it has. In India...Neither I nor any of the women I was closely associated with, whether in India or in Canada, had ever...anything like what this woman was talking about. How...

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Magazine Articles on: women in india

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Women Missionaries in India: Opening Up the Restrictive Policies of Rufus Anderson

Magazine article by Eugene Heideman; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 25, October 2001

Subjects:

Anderson, Rufus, Christianity, History, India, Missionaries, Nonfiction, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...catechists. Role of ABCFM Women in India and Ceylon By 1850 Anderson...position as a missionary in India became untenable, and...after the Mayous left India, a more subtle attack...than unmarried men or women. No unmarried man was...case of an unmarried woman, they followed the policy...
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Women Build New Currency in India

Magazine article by Denise Davy; Herizons, Vol. 11, Winter 1997

Subjects:

Bhatt, Ela, Economic conditions, India, Self-employed Women's Assn, Women

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...cared for her children. The woman was able to repay the bank...And yes, almost all the women repay loans on time. She quotes studies which found that if a woman has 100 rupees, 96 will go...should go into the hands of women if you want to improve a familys...estimated 2.2 million women in India make bidis in their homes...
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Kmvs: Working towards Environmental Justice for Rural Women in India

Magazine article by Seema Patel; WE International, Summer 2000

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Environmental activism, Environmental justice, Gujarat India, India, Rural areas, Rural development, Social conditions, Women, Women's cooperatives

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...towards Environmental Justice for Rural Women in India by Seema Patel For eight months in...rural womens collective in Gujarat, India called Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan...the realities of womens lives. In India, I learned first-hand what environmental...
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Women in India Gain under Divorce Law [Christian Women

Magazine article; Vol. 127, October 2001

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Christian life & ethics, Divorce, India, Laws & regulations, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Women in India Gain under Divorce Law Christian Women New Delhi (ENI)-An amendment...Parliament in August gives Christian women divorce rights equal to those...wife. However, a Christian woman had to prove several of these...colonial Christian officers in India because it enabled them to...
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Engendering Urban Environmental Management: a Study of Women Councilors in Burdwan, India

Magazine article by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta, Pallabi Sil, Chhanda Karfa; Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring 2006

Subjects:

Burdwan India, Decision making, Environmental aspects, Environmental management, Gender identity, Policy making, Urban areas, Women

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...Also, many of the women participating in urban...forward. Just being a woman does not mean ones perceptions...middle class Indian women in many cases do not...West Bengal in eastern India(iii). The well...them. Currently the 13 women Councilors represent...Council seats. Only one woman is from a lower caste...the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI...

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Newspaper Articles on: women in india

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Stitch in Time for Women of Rural India

Newspaper article by Lisa Rauschart; The Washington Times, April 17, 1999

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India

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...baskets, the fish and the women fill the quilt with color...countryside. "In these quilts, women find a wonderful opportunity...pressures associated with being a woman in India predominate, defying even...dictates of the market. For the women who work on the pieces, life...
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India to Ban Gay Couples from Surrogacy Clinics; New Laws on [Pounds Sterling]1.5bn Industry 'To Stop Women Being Exploited'

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 25, 2011

Subjects:

Gay couples--Laws, regulations and rules, Working women--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...homosexual couples from coming to India to enter into such deals...The babies were stuck in India for six months amid wrangling...outlawed in Britain but in India women receive about pounds sterling5...000. He said: "An Indian woman gets 10 years worth of salary...
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GENOCIDE OF THE DAUGHTERS; Ten Million Female Foetuses Have Been Illegally Aborted in India by Mothers Desperate to Bear a Son. What Will Become of This Nation of Ever Fewer Women?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 4, 2006

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Genocide, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Nation of Ever Fewer Women? Byline: ANNA SEBA...blessing given to a Hindu woman in India on her wedding day...mantras by the other women of the family, calling...younger, more fertile woman who will produce sons...has spread to Indian women in the UK who face the...number are travelling to India for an abortion, as...
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THE PAINTED LADIES; A New Exhibition Celebrates History's Most Notorious Women. India Knight, Who Sat for the Artist, Pays Tribute

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 4, 2010

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Artists--Exhibitions

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...The life stories of the women she has chosen to portray send...relentless desire of society to pack women into neat little boxes...bizarre need to "punish" every woman whos no better than she should be. The women in Instones paintings paid...Emma, Lady Hamilton) and India Knight (below, as Catherine...
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Britain's Hidden Gendercide; Millions of Women in India, Desperate for Male Heirs, Abort Female Babies. Even More Shocking, Says Novelist LADY DESAI, Is That Sophisticated British Asian Mothers Are Doing the Same Thing

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 11, 2010

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Novelists

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Gendercide; Millions of Women in India, Desperate for Male...anxious-looking Indian woman who has been staring...be pleased. But the woman is lying -- just as hundreds of other British women of Indian origin do every...of the hospital, the woman shudders, knowing full...The long flight to India, the noisy taxi ride...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women in india

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Marriage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...For example, Nayar women of India would ritually marry...of West Africa, one woman could marry another...most societies men and women are valued for their...through the exchange of women, and the social organization...unions between a man and a woman; such partnerships typically...certain hill tribes in India. People who enjoy only...
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Costume

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...starched white linen. Egyptian women first wore the kalasiris, a...Arab countries both men and women have for centuries wrapped themselves...1949) until the 1990s men and women of China wore dark-colored...or geta (wooden clogs). India, too, has traditional costumes...
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Roy, Rammohun

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...administrative career in the British East India Company, he retired (1815...as a strong unifying force in India, while removing from it the...idolatry, discrimination against women, and the caste system. Thus...educational methods. He felt that India would have to absorb Western...
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Gypsies

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...closely related to the languages of NW India. Their blood groupings have been found...horse dealers, and auto mechanics. Gypsy women are famous as fortunetellers. It is believed that they came originally from NW India, which they left for Persia in the 1st...
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Harem

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...In the ancient Arab world women enjoyed a certain amount of...the veiling and seclusion of women into harems became more common...often contained several hundred women, all subject to the control...and guarded by eunuchs. In India the harem is called a purdah...

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