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dc.contributor.authorDevika, J.
dc.coverage.spatialIndiaen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-29T10:43:25Z
dc.date.available2013-08-29T10:43:25Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citationDevika, J. (2002) Imagining women's social space in early modern Keralam. CDS working paper, 329. Trivandrum: CDS.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/2932
dc.description.abstractThe paper argues that the formation of modern gender identities in late 19th and early 20th Century Keralam was deeply implicated in the project of shaping governable subjects who were, at the one and same time, ‘free’ and already inserted into modern institutions. Because gender appeared both ‘natural’ and ‘social’, both ‘individualised’ and ‘general’, it appeared to be a superior form of social order compared to the established jati-based ordering. The actualisation of a superior society ordered by gender was seen to be dependent upon the shaping of full-fledged Individuals with strong internalities and well-developed gendered capacities that would place them within the distinct social domains of the public and domestic as ‘free’ individuals, who, however would be bound in a complementary relationship. By the 1930s, however, this public / domestic divide came to the blurred with the rapid spread of disciplinary institutions. Womanhood came to be associated not with a domain but with a certain form of power. And with this, Malayalee women gained access to public life and with it, a highly ambiguous ‘liberation’. Key Words: public sphere, gendering, individual, domestic, modernity, womanhood, non-coercive power.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherCentre for Development Studiesen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCDS working paper;329
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectEducationen_GB
dc.subjectGenderen_GB
dc.subjectPolitics and Poweren_GB
dc.titleImagining women's social space in early modern Keralamen_GB
dc.typeSeries paper (non-IDS)en_GB
dc.rights.holderCDSen_GB
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://www.cds.edu/outreach/publications/working-papersen_GB


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