Skip to content

Domesticity in Colonial India What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0742529371

ISBN-13: 9780742529373

Edition: 2004

Authors: Judith E. Walsh

List price: $51.00
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
Buy eBooks
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.10" wide x 8.94" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
A note on translation and transliteration
Introduction
Global domesticity
Domesticity in colonial Calcutta
Rewriting patriarchy : the companionate marriage
Will the educated woman still cook and scour plates?
What's love got to do with it?
The well-ordered home
What women learned : rewriting patriarchy, writing the nation and the self
Epilogue
Conversations with the wife
A husband's advice to his wife
The Laksmi of the home
The duties of women
Woman's dharma
Supporting translations : a note on Bengali domestic manuals and their authors
Brief glossary
References
Index
About the author