Geraldine Forbes
Biographic Data
| ID | 371034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geraldine Forbes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geraldine |
| FAMILY NAME | Forbes |
| SIGNATURE | FORBES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York at Oswego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History (review)
Reviewed by: Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History ed. by David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn Geraldine Forbes Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. Edited by David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. Although Indian religious texts, literature, and history are full of life stories, life histories have not been a subject of study. Many …
Foremothers: Neera Desai (b. 1925)
Neera Desai (b. 1925), best known as the founder of India's first Women's Studies Research Unit, also wrote the first analytical history of Indian women. In Woman in Modern India , published in 1957, the central concern is women's lack of opportunity and progress from the Vedic period to the 1950s. A college student at the time of the Quit India movement in 1942, Neera belongs to a generation of women who entered the professions in newly independ…
Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay: 1845-1895 (Review)
Reviewed by: Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay: 1845–1895 Geraldine Forbes Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay: 1845–1895. By Mridula Ramanna. New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2002. Mridula Ramanna’s Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay: 1845–1895 is a welcome addition to a growing body of literature on colonial medicine. During the past two decades historians have revised an earlie…
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Biography (review)
Reviewed by: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Biography Geraldine Forbes Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Biography. By Reena Nanda. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an actress, social worker, freedom fighter, youth leader, socialist, women’s movement organizer, and chair of post-independence India’s craft council. Because it is in this last role that most people remember her, Reena Nanda’s biography, published in a ne…
Reflections on South Asian Women's/Gender History: Past and Future
Reflections on South Asian Women’s/Gender History: Past and Future Geraldine Forbes At the first conference held on Women’s History in Bangladesh,1 a member of the audience commented that she and many others had pursued “women’s history” long before it had a name. She joked about the term “gender” as another example of innovative renaming and asked what was really new. During the conference, I talked with students enrolled in Dhaka University’s W…
Under the Raj: Prostitution in Colonial Bengal (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2001
Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories . Nita Kumar Indian Women: Myth and Reality . Jasodhara Bagchi From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women . Bharati Ray
Women in Modern India
In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed women's lives enabling them to take part in public life. Through their own accounts of their lives and activities, she documents the formation of their organ…
An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life: Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal
Medical careers and health care for Indian women: Patterns of Control
In the 1880s reform-minded men and women in Great Britain had joined the missionaries and a number of Indian reformers in demanding that Western medical care be extended to Indian women. The subjects of their concern were high-status Indian women who observed the norms of seclusion. British women, at this time entering the medical profession, supported this initiative because it legitimized their professional goals and promised employment. This p…
Women and Politics in Islam: The Trial of Benazir Bhutto
Memoirs of an Indian Woman
The Rani of Jhansi: A Study of Female Heroism in India
the last half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fed into the stream of growing nationalism.She became a potent political symbol, a symbol that is being reinterpreted in fresh ways even today.Convinced that the Rani would capture the imagination of Western readers even as Joan of Arc did, I embarked on the present study.I visited Jhansi, Kalpi, Gwalior, Lucknow, and Kanpur, saw the forts where she fought and died, and taped the poet…
Caged tigers: ‘First wave’ feminists in India
Women and modernity: The issue of child marriage in India
Jogendro Chandra Ghosh and Hindu positivism: A Case Study in Cultural Adaptation
I dedicate this article to Mrs Rukmini Srinivas who was my surrogate mother during a difficult and awkward phase of my teenage and early adulthood years
Caged tigers: ‘First wave’ feminists in India
Medical careers and health care for Indian women: Patterns of Control
In the 1880s reform-minded men and women in Great Britain had joined the missionaries and a number of Indian reformers in demanding that Western medical care be extended to Indian women. The subjects of their concern were high-status Indian women who observed the norms of seclusion. British women, at this time entering the medical profession, supported this initiative because it legitimized their professional goals and promised employment. This p…
Jogendro Chandra Ghosh and Hindu positivism: A Case Study in Cultural Adaptation
I dedicate this article to Mrs Rukmini Srinivas who was my surrogate mother during a difficult and awkward phase of my teenage and early adulthood years
Women and modernity: The issue of child marriage in India
Caged tigers: ‘First wave’ feminists in India
The Rani of Jhansi: A Study of Female Heroism in India
the last half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fed into the stream of growing nationalism.She became a potent political symbol, a symbol that is being reinterpreted in fresh ways even today.Convinced that the Rani would capture the imagination of Western readers even as Joan of Arc did, I embarked on the present study.I visited Jhansi, Kalpi, Gwalior, Lucknow, and Kanpur, saw the forts where she fought and died, and taped the poet…
Memoirs of an Indian Woman
Women and Politics in Islam: The Trial of Benazir Bhutto
Medical careers and health care for Indian women: Patterns of Control
In the 1880s reform-minded men and women in Great Britain had joined the missionaries and a number of Indian reformers in demanding that Western medical care be extended to Indian women. The subjects of their concern were high-status Indian women who observed the norms of seclusion. British women, at this time entering the medical profession, supported this initiative because it legitimized their professional goals and promised employment. This p…
Women in Modern India
In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed women's lives enabling them to take part in public life. Through their own accounts of their lives and activities, she documents the formation of their organ…
An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life: Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal
Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories . Nita Kumar Indian Women: Myth and Reality . Jasodhara Bagchi From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women . Bharati Ray
Under the Raj: Prostitution in Colonial Bengal (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2001
Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay: 1845-1895 (Review)
Reviewed by: Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay: 1845–1895 Geraldine Forbes Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay: 1845–1895. By Mridula Ramanna. New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2002. Mridula Ramanna’s Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay: 1845–1895 is a welcome addition to a growing body of literature on colonial medicine. During the past two decades historians have revised an earlie…
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Biography (review)
Reviewed by: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Biography Geraldine Forbes Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Biography. By Reena Nanda. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an actress, social worker, freedom fighter, youth leader, socialist, women’s movement organizer, and chair of post-independence India’s craft council. Because it is in this last role that most people remember her, Reena Nanda’s biography, published in a ne…
Reflections on South Asian Women's/Gender History: Past and Future
Reflections on South Asian Women’s/Gender History: Past and Future Geraldine Forbes At the first conference held on Women’s History in Bangladesh,1 a member of the audience commented that she and many others had pursued “women’s history” long before it had a name. She joked about the term “gender” as another example of innovative renaming and asked what was really new. During the conference, I talked with students enrolled in Dhaka University’s W…
Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History (review)
Reviewed by: Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History ed. by David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn Geraldine Forbes Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. Edited by David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. Although Indian religious texts, literature, and history are full of life stories, life histories have not been a subject of study. Many …
Foremothers: Neera Desai (b. 1925)
Neera Desai (b. 1925), best known as the founder of India's first Women's Studies Research Unit, also wrote the first analytical history of Indian women. In Woman in Modern India , published in 1957, the central concern is women's lack of opportunity and progress from the Vedic period to the 1950s. A college student at the time of the Quit India movement in 1942, Neera belongs to a generation of women who entered the professions in newly independ…
Sociology (13 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)