Buch
Sammelband
Dowry : bridging the gap between theory and practice
Herausgegeben von:
Bradley, Tamsin
London [u. a.]:
Zed Books
,
2009
,
245 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Bradley, Tamsin |
| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Jahr: | 2009 |
| Maße: | 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 1848132948 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This book explores dowry practices in South Asia from a number of theoretical perspectives and through a multidisciplinary lens. It provides an overview of these debates and descussions as they have developed since the 1960s, with the emergence of the Indian women's movement in particular. Table of Contents: Dowry in Rural Bangladesh: An Intractable problem? / Santi Rozarios. - Heroes or Hondas? Analysing men's dowry narratives in a time of rapid social change / Kate Jehan. - The Interfaces between Gender, Religion and Dowry / Tamsin Bradley. - Trends and Patterns in Dowry Transactions: Evidence from North and South India / Sonia Dalmia and Pareena G. Lawrence. - The Spieder's Web: Seeing Dowry, fighting dowry / Raini Palriwala. - Legacies of the Dowry Prohibition Act in India: Marriage practices and feminist discourses / Srimati Basu. - Dowry and Transnational Activism / Mangala Subramaniam, Karen Remedios, and Debarashmi Mitra | |
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