"In Pursuit of Playfulness : girlchild/woman in the colonial encounter, 1800-1900" lecture by Dr. Ruby Lal at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th January 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘In Pursuit of Playfulness : girlchild/woman in the colonial encounter, 1800-1900’ by Dr. Ruby Lal, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Abstract : In this presentation, derived from my forthcoming book with the same title, I examine the business of a girl-becoming-woman in nineteenth-century northern India. My exploration is held together by the ideal of playfulness as a ‘characteristic feature of women’s/girl’s lives’; it is the area in which women are able to express themselves, and find pleasure, even within the constraints of patriarchal domination. In exploring how the education and rules of comportment for girls and women changed in the 19th century, I refer consistently to the writings of men. What I attempt to produce thereby is a relational history: a history of the power relations between men and women that are constantly changing, being negotiated, challenged, subverted, adopted, and adapted. Although other authors have discussed the same prescriptive literature for women that I use in this book, I try to foreground the genealogy, changes and audience for this literature and attempt to show how these prescriptions affected women’s lives.
Speaker : Dr. Ruby Lal is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University, Atlanta. She taught earlier at the Johns Hopkins University, where she was as Assistant Professor in History and Anthropology, and Associate Director of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Her research and writing have focused on gender relations in Islamic societies in the precolonial and colonial world. She is the author of Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World, in addition to numerous academic articles, and political commentaries. Her second book, entitled Becoming Woman: Family and Civilization in the Colonial Encounter, circa 1800-1900 is currently under review with CUP, NY. She is also writing two books for a wider audience: Nur Nama: The History of an Uncrowned Empress, a historical biography of the Mughal Queen, Nur Jahan; and Harem Tales: A General Reader.
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘In Pursuit of Playfulness : girlchild/woman in the colonial encounter, 1800-1900’ by Dr. Ruby Lal, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Abstract : In this presentation, derived from my forthcoming book with the same title, I examine the business of a girl-becoming-woman in nineteenth-century northern India. My exploration is held together by the ideal of playfulness as a ‘characteristic feature of women’s/girl’s lives’; it is the area in which women are able to express themselves, and find pleasure, even within the constraints of patriarchal domination. In exploring how the education and rules of comportment for girls and women changed in the 19th century, I refer consistently to the writings of men. What I attempt to produce thereby is a relational history: a history of the power relations between men and women that are constantly changing, being negotiated, challenged, subverted, adopted, and adapted. Although other authors have discussed the same prescriptive literature for women that I use in this book, I try to foreground the genealogy, changes and audience for this literature and attempt to show how these prescriptions affected women’s lives.
Speaker : Dr. Ruby Lal is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University, Atlanta. She taught earlier at the Johns Hopkins University, where she was as Assistant Professor in History and Anthropology, and Associate Director of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Her research and writing have focused on gender relations in Islamic societies in the precolonial and colonial world. She is the author of Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World, in addition to numerous academic articles, and political commentaries. Her second book, entitled Becoming Woman: Family and Civilization in the Colonial Encounter, circa 1800-1900 is currently under review with CUP, NY. She is also writing two books for a wider audience: Nur Nama: The History of an Uncrowned Empress, a historical biography of the Mughal Queen, Nur Jahan; and Harem Tales: A General Reader.
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"In Pursuit of Playfulness : girlchild/woman in the colonial encounter, 1800-1900" lecture by Dr. Ruby Lal at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th January 2012
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