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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Roy, Kumkum. Power of gender & the gender of power. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010 (OCoLC)761023580 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kumkum Roy |
| ISBN: | 9780198066767 0198066767 |
| OCLC Number: | 656829223 |
| Description: | xiv, 386 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. Towards histories of gender relations -- pt. 2. Interrogating textual traditions. |
| Series Title: | Oxford collected essays. |
| Other Titles: | Power of gender and the gender of power |
| Responsibility: | Kumkum Roy. |
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<br>"Kumkum Roy is among the foremost scholars working in the field of early Indian history today...Taking on the challenge of exploring differences not just between men and women, but also among men and women in early society, these essays show us how to productively use the evidences there are to make gender and power relations visible. Household dynamics, courtesanal traditions, reproduction and sexuality, along with issues of justice, kingship and the nature of authority--these are not even exhaustive lists of the kinds of themes she has addressed in her meticulous scholarship."--Mary E. John, Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies<br>"Although Kumkum Roy has written extensively on gender history in early India, she has not written them with a feminist pen, but as a social historian. She has emerged, over time, as one of the foremost scholars who have researched on gender in history and has given new directions to the subject...One of the outstanding qualities of [h Read more...
