@article{887865,
      recid = {887865},
      author = {Lal, Ruby.},
      title = {Coming of age in nineteenth-century India the girl-child  and the art of playfulness / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, [England] ;},
      pages = {xvii, 229 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces  the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women  through a critique of narratives of linear transition from  girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal  environment, women's lives were dominated by the  expectations of the male universal, articulated most  clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author  argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century  experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and  playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances.  Although women in the colonial world of the later  nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their  activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched  domestic norms. Lal skilfully marks the subtle and complex  alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety  of nineteenth-century discourses, which are elaborated in  four different sites - forest, school, household and  rooftop"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/887865},
}