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Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere

Nijhawan, Shobna:
Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere : Periodical Literature in Colonial North India / Shobna Nijhawan. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012. - xxii, 358 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-0-19-807407-6
Rs. 750,00 (OUP India)
US$ 55,00 (OUP USA)
£ 27,50 (OUP UK)
DDC: 302.230820954; 891.430809287
-- in Indien bereits erschienen, US-Ausgabe laut Amazon angekündigt für Dezember 2012 --

Beschreibung
The early 20th century in India witnessed the emergence of Hindi women's periodicals, which played a critical role in shaping a nationalist-feminist thought in India.
   Analysing the format and structure of Hindi women's periodicals, this volume investigates how women's periodicals became a medium for elite and middle-class women to think in new idioms and express themselves collectively in a period of social transition and political emancipation. In discussing topics surrounding domesticity, political emancipation, and language politics, the book argues that women's periodicals were an instigator of change and not merely a witness thereof. Providing case studies of Hindi women's periodicals including Stri Darpan (Women's Mirror), Grihalakshmi (Lakshmi of the Home), and Arya Mahila (Arya Woman), the volume also takes into account Hindi girls' periodicals like Kumari Darpan and Kanya Manoranjan, and looks at the nationalist demand for home rule for women.
   Alongside a perceptive Introduction by the author setting the tone for the volume, the book includes an Index for cross-reference and a detailed Bibliography to help scholars for future research. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Figures and Boxes. xi
Preface. xv
Acknowledgements. xx
Note on Transliteration and Translation. xxiii
PART I: WOMEN'S AND GIRLS' PERIODICALS
   1. The Periodical as a Genre: an Introduction. 3
   2. Women's Periodicals. 29
   3. Girls' Periodicals. 100
   4. Genre and Domesticity. 140
   5. Hindi and the Question of Comprehensibility. 188
   6. Conclusion. 231
PART II: A READER
   1. Editorials and Readers' Letters. 244
   2. Essays, Speeches, and Advice Texts. 253
   3. (Auto)biographical Accounts, Fiction, and Poetry. 281
   4. Advertisements and Book Reviews. 315
Conclusion. 322
Bibliography. 329
Index. 351

Autorin

Shobna Nijhawan is Assistant Professor of Hindi, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Canada. Profile page.

Quellen: Oxford University Press (India); Oxford University Press (USA); WorldCat; Amazon


Nijhawan: Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere, 2012