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Don’t Marry Me To A Plowman!

Women's Everyday Lives In Rural North India

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By Patricia Jeffery

By Roger Jeffery

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$46.00

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Trade Paperback

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Trade Paperback $46.00

Popular Western images of Indian women range from submissive brides behind their veils to the powerful, active women of Indian politics. In this lively and unique book, Patricia and Roger Jeffery present a different perspective on women's lives. Focusing on the mundane rather than the exotic, they explore the complex interplay between the power of social structures to constrain individuals and the ways women negotiate these constraints to carve out places for themselves.Based on information collected by the authors during their research in villages in Bijnor District, western Uttar Pradesh, the volume offers eight life histories of Hindu and Muslim women. The women's life histories present a variety of class positions and domestic circumstances, illustrating many aspects of north Indian village life. Interspersed with thematic discussions composed of dialogues, episodes, and songs, the life histories deal with topics of vital concern for women in rural north India: the birth of children, worries about dowry, arranging weddings, sexual politics in marriage, relationships with in-laws, relationships with natal kin, and widowhood.

On Sale
Mar 22, 1996
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
Avalon Publishing
ISBN-13
9780813326214

Patricia Jeffery

About the Author

Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery both teach in the Sociology Department at the University of Edinburgh. Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery both teach in the Sociology Department at the University of Edinburgh.

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