The Women of Totagadde Broken Silence /

• Main Author: Ullrich, Helen E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Ethnology.; Ethnography.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Gender Studies.; Cultural Anthropology.

This book depicts one South Indian village during the fifty-year period when women’s education became a possibility—and then a reality. Despite illiteracy, religious ritual marking them as inferior, and pre-pubertal marriages, the daughters and granddaughters of the silent, passive women of the 1960...