The subaltern Indian woman domination and social degradation
This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women's abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
[2018]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview: Indian Indentured Women a Human Agency
- Chapter 2: Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900.- Chapter 3: Conceiving the Coolie Woman: Indentured Labour, Indian Women and Colonial Discourse.- Chapter 4: Female Indentured Labor in Suriname: For Better or for Worse?
- Chapter 5: The Position of Indian Women in Suriname
- Chapter 6: Kunti's Cry: Indentured Women on Fiji Plantations
- Chapter 7: Kunti, Lakshmibhai and the "Ladies": Women's Labour and the Abolition of Indentured Emigration from India
- Chapter 8: Fallen through the Nationalist and Feminist Grids of Analysis: Political Campaigning of Indian Women against Indentured Labour Emigration
- Chapter 9: Constructing Visibility: Indian Women in the Jamaican Segment of the Indian Diaspora
- Chapter 10: "Time to Show Our True Colors": The Gendered Politics of "Indianness" in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Chapter 11: Reflexivity and The Diaspora: Indian Women in Post-indenture Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius and South Africa
- Chapter 12: The Indo-Fijian Woman's Story: Violence Against Women.