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Urbanization and urban development in India
In: Research in sociology and social anthropology
In: Monograph 1
Women's oppression in the public gaze: an analysis of newspaper coverage, state action and activist response
In: RCWS gender series
In: Gender and violence 1
Tracing the voice: Pandita Ramabai's life through her landmark texts
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 19, Heft 43, S. 19-28
ISSN: 1465-3303
Caste and Outcast (review)
In: Journal of colonialism & colonial history, Band 4, Heft 1
ISSN: 1532-5768
A Prismatic Presence: The Multiple Iconisation of Dr Anandibai Joshee and the Politics of Life-Writing
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 16, Heft 35, S. 157-173
ISSN: 1465-3303
Motherhood in the East–West Encounter: Pandita Ramabai's Negotiation of 'Daughterhood' and Motherhood
In: Feminist review, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 49-67
ISSN: 1466-4380
The female East–West encounter often pivoted upon the motherhood role played by the representatives of the empire. This article aims to explore the complexities of the construction and enactment of this role. The analysis focuses on a cameo of triangular interpersonal relationships formed by Pandita Ramabai, an Indian Brahmin scholar who converted to Christianity in 1883 during her stay in England for higher studies, her little daughter Manorama who was baptized at the same time and Ramabai's spiritual mother, the Anglican Sister Geraldine who was deeply and possessively attached to Manorama. After situating motherhood in its international discursive context, the article examines the two tension-filled sets of motherhood and daughterhood inherent in this triad, with the help of Ramabai's published letters and correspondence which were compiled and edited by Geraldine (who made Ramabai's maternal inadequacies her dominant subtext) and of Manorama's unpublished letters to Geraldine, her 'grandmother'. The article argues that a British missionary nun's successful exercise of the motherhood role which she spontaneously assumed towards an Indian convert was contingent upon the convert's adherence to the racially and culturally inferior stereotype and unquestioning submission to the new faith as well as to colonial authority. Such conformity and acceptance alone allowed deep 'maternal' bonding (overlooking racial differences) which was too fragile to withstand any contestation or exercise of agency by the convert. The overarching patriarchal ethos of the Church, internalized by the missionary nun, was also a significant determinant of her treatment of the women converts in various ways.
Book Reviews : ROSALIND O'HANLON, A Comparison between Women and Men: Tarabai Shinde and the Critique of Gender Relations in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, Madras, 1994, 147 pp. , Rs 200
In: The Indian economic and social history review: IESHR, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 276-278
ISSN: 0973-0893
Gender Reform and Competing State Controls over Women: The Rakhmabai Case (1884-1888)
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 29, Heft 1-2, S. 265-290
ISSN: 0973-0648
The Meeting of the Twain: The Cultural Confrontation of Three Women in Nineteenth Century Maharashtra
In: Indian journal of gender studies, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 1-22
ISSN: 0973-0672
Book Reviews and Notices
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 156-157
ISSN: 0973-0648
Reconstructing Femininities: Colonial Intersections of Gender, Race, Religion and Class
In: Feminist review, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 1-4
ISSN: 1466-4380