The Subaltern Indian Woman Domination and Social Degradation /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Misir, Prem (Editor)
Summary:	XIX, 292 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Feminism. Feminist theory. Asia > History. Ethnology. Emigration and immigration. Feminism and Feminist Theory. History of South Asia. Sociocultural Anthropology. Diaspora Studies.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5166-1
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

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 GenderedPolitics 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. .

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