Pratima Gopalakrishnan
Biographic Data
| ID | 9288999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pratima Gopalakrishnan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pratima |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopalakrishnan |
| SIGNATURE | GOPALAKRISHNAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Wives’ Work
A curious list from the Mishnah lists seven labors that a woman does for her husband. The juxtaposition of these seven tasks in a list creates a hierarchy among them, which dictates the order in which the performance of a task is transferred to an enslaved woman as the size of the woman’s dowry increases. Scholars read this text to understand how wealth shapes a woman’s labor obligations, but they have taken the form and contents of the list as a…
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Wives’ Work
A curious list from the Mishnah lists seven labors that a woman does for her husband. The juxtaposition of these seven tasks in a list creates a hierarchy among them, which dictates the order in which the performance of a task is transferred to an enslaved woman as the size of the woman’s dowry increases. Scholars read this text to understand how wealth shapes a woman’s labor obligations, but they have taken the form and contents of the list as a…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Dowry (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Hierarchy (1 work) · History (1 work) · Islamic Studies and History (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (1 work) · Political science (1 work)