Women and Labour in Late Colonial India

by Samita Sen

Book Overview

Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521453631
• ISBN13: 9780521453639
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"