What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice: Rewriting Patriarchy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Bengal  

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Walsh, Judith E

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Asian Studies vol. 56 no. 03 (Aug. 1997), page 641.
Topik: Women's; New Patriarchy; A Discourse of Devotion; Old Patriaichy; Advice Manuals; Husband; Wife

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Judith Walsh highlights the voices of middle-class Bengali women in nineteenth-century India by providing a new reading of contemporary domestic/advice manuals. Although these male-authored manuals emphasized wifely devotion and subordination to husbands, she rereads them to argue that "what women learned when men gave them advice" was that they "learned to read" and were therefore able to rewrite patriarchy in order to make new choices about their domestic roles and relationships. Thus, these women fashioned "an agency for themselves."

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