From the Book - First SUNY Press edition.
1. Women's Histories, Gender Studies: An Overview
Historiographical Shifts: A Very Brief Glance
The British at Home: How Similar and How Different
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 1
2. Redesigning Gender Laws
Hindu Personal Laws: The War Over Widows
War Over Widows: Remarriage
Beyond Personal Laws: Female Infanticide
Beyond Personal Laws: Civil Marriage
War Over the Child Wife: The Age of Consent Act of 1891
Back to Civil Marriages: The New Century
Back to Child Marriages: The New Century
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 2
3. Redesigning Gender: Reformers and the Orthodoxy
Changes in Tribal Culture
Hindu Reformers and the Orthodoxy
Births, Birth Control, and the Spectre of Female Sexuality
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 3
Slaves, Servants, Artistes
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 4
Associations and Movements
War, Independence, and Partition
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 5
6. Holy and Unholy Gender
Unholy Gender – Beyond the Two Genders
Courtesans, Concubines, Sex Workers
Interracial Relationships
Prisons and Lunatic Asylums
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 6
7. Writing and Performing Gender
The World of Printed Books
Gender in the Modern Journals
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 7
Gendering Births and Deaths
Social Work for Gender Reform
Women's Political Activism and Feminist Politics
Gendering State Repression
Re-Presenting Literature: Gender
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 8
9. The "Others", Pakistan and Bangladesh
Early Political Vicissitudes
Bangladesh: An Outline History
References and Suggested Readings for Chapter 9.
