Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture

ISBN-13: 9780367676230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

Farzana Gounder; Kalpana Hiralal; Amba Pande

Opis

The authors in this volume take gender as a prominent analytical category and raise new questions and understandings in the way we conceptualize, document and write about gendered migrations in the diaspora.

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Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Perspectives from the Diaspora on Indentured Migration 1. ‘A Most Callous Indifference’: Sukhdei’s Story 2. Gender and Resistance in Indian Indenture Life Stories: Oral History and the National Stage of Memorialization 3. Indentured Hindustani Women in Suriname Part 2: Perspectives from the ‘Home’ Country on Indentured Migration 4. Indentured Women and Hindi Print-Public Sphere in Early Twentieth Century India 5. Wives Across the Seas – ‘Left behind’ and ‘Forgotten’? Gender and Migration in the Indian Ocean Region 6. Gender, Labour and Resistance: Mapping the Lives of Indentured Women in Natal, South Africa 1860-1914 Part 3: Gender, Sexuality and Agency 7. Unsettling Diasporas – Negotiation of Identities and Subversion of Categories: Asian Women in and Beyond Slavery at Mauritius, the Cape and Sri Lanka 8. Migrant Women Multiterritoriality Processes in Transnational Marriage Condition 9. Marriage, Concubinage and Extramarital Relations in Suriname and the Caribbean: Continuity and Change