Imagining the Social Body
Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20086522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Srirupa Prasad (University of Missouri, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 60-88 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137520722_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2493728591 |
| ISBN | 9781137520722 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Women’s autobiographical writings — memoirs, diaries, and autobiographies — are no longer archival outliers. In the last 30 years historians and literary critics have enthusiastically embraced them as legitimate archival material. This chapter, drawing on this critical scholarship, explores the construction of an ethic of care within the autobiographical writings of three Bengali women during the first half of the twentieth century
Art · Bengali · Linguistics · Literature · Memoir · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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