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Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history
2005
Overview
Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters.
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Subject
/ British occupation, 1765-1947
/ Children
/ Feminism
/ Girls
/ History
/ India
/ India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
/ Infant girls -- Violence against -- India -- History
/ Infanticide -- India -- History
/ Women
/ Women -- India -- Social conditions
ISBN
9780791463277, 0791463281, 0791463273, 9780791463284
