Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora

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Abstract

Indentured and Post-Indentured Indian Women: Changing Paradigms -- Gender Performativity in Subaltern Life Stories: Changing Discourses of Indentured Women as Mothers and Labourers -- Normativised Misogyny: A Socio-legal Critique of Colonial Indentured Labour -- Writing the 'Stigmatext' of Indenture: A Reading of Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman -- Finding a voice: Literary representations of indentured women -- Indentured Women and Resistance in the Plantations -- Indentured Muslim Women in Colonial Natal: Mothers, Wives, and Work -- Challenges and Evolution of Indentured Women Diaspora in Reunion Island -- The Experiences and Struggles of Indian Indentured Women in 19th Century Mauritius.