Wives, Widows, and Concubines
by Sreenivas, MytheliFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-05-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed study of the family in Tamil history,Wives, Widows, and Concubinesmaps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy. Among professional and mercantile elites, the conjugal relationship displaced the extended family as the focal point of household dynamics. Conjugality provided a language with which women laid claim to new rights, even as the structures of the conjugal family reinscribed women's oppression inside and outside marriage.
Author Biography
Mytheli Sreenivas is Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies at The Ohio State University.
Table of Contents
| Note on Transliteration | |
| Situating Families | p. 1 |
| Colonizing the Family: Kinship, Household, and State | p. 18 |
| Conjugality and Capital: Defining Women's Rights to Family Property | p. 45 |
| Nationalizing Marriage: Indian and Dravidian Politics of Conjugality | p. 67 |
| Marrying for Love: Emotion and Desire in Women's Print Culture | p. 94 |
| Conclusion: Families and History | p. 120 |
| Notes | p. 129 |
| Bibliography | p. 153 |
| Index | p. 163 |
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