Emotion, identity, and the female subject: Tamil women's magazines in colonial India, 1890-1940

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 59-82

  Sreenivas, Mytheli ^a  

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EID: 28944451472     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2003.0016     Document Type: Review

References (38)

1. Muthulakshmi Reddi, "Remarriage," Kirahalakshmi (October 1937): 708. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from Tamil are my own.
2. Ma. Antalammal, "Chastity," Pen Kalvi (April/May 1913): 16-19, quotation on 18.
3. Gail Minault, "Urdu Women's Magazines in the Early Twentieth Century," Manushi, no. 48 (September-October 1988): 2-9, quotation on 9.
4. Himani Bannerjee, "Fashioning a Self: Educational Proposals for and by Women in Popular Magazines in Colonial Bengal," Economic and Political Weekly 26, no. 43 (26 October 1991): WS50-WS62, quotation on WS50.
5. Sita Anantha Raman, Getting Girls to School: Social Reform in the Tamil Districts, 1870-1930 (Calcutta: Stree, 1996).
6. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. (LondonVerso, 1991), 37-46;
7. A. R. Venkatachalapathy, "Domesticating the Novel: Society and Culture in Inter-War Tamil Nadu," Indian Economic and Social History Review 34, no. 1 (1997): 53-67;
8. Sita Anantha Raman, "Old Norms in New Bottles: Constructions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Early Tamil Novel," Journal of Women's History 12, no. 3 (autumn 2000): 93-115, esp. 93-95.
9. Ma. Cu. Campantan, Tamilcombining minus sign below Italicombining minus sign belowyal Kalañciyam (Chennai: Tamil Publishing House, 1990), 20.
10. and Raman, Getting Girls to School, 102-56.
11. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 184.
12. Kumkum Roy, "Unraveling the Kamasutra," in A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India, ed. Mary John and Janaki Nair (London: Zed Books, 1998), 52-76.
13. Raman, "Old Norms in New Bottles," 98.1 acknowledge an anonymous reviewer for the Journal of Women's History for elucidating this point.
14. R. Suntharalingam, Politics and Nationalist Awakening in South India, 1852-1891 (Tucson: Published for the Association for Asian Studies by the University of Arizona Press, 1974), xiv.
15. A. K. Sabha, "Our Wives," Indian Ladies Magazine 4, no 8 (February 1905): 238-39, quotations on 238.
16. Venkatachalapathy, "Domesticating the Novel," 53-67.
17. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993): 116-34.
18. On Cousins, see Jayawardena, White Woman's Other Burden, 147-55.
19. On Muthulakshmi, see Sita Anantha Raman, "Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Indian Matriarchs and Sisters in Service," Journal of Third World Studies 18, no. 2 (fall 2001): 131-48.
20. See, for instance, S. Kamala, "Bharati and Women," Kirahalakshmi 1, no. 1 (January 1937): 13;
21. and V. E. Muttupalaniyappa, "Widows Need a Marriage Based on Love," Mātar Marcombining dot belowumancombining dot belowam 1, no. 4 (November/December 1936): 21.
22. S. Komalam, "Marriage without Dignity," Kirahalakshmi 1, no. 12 (December 1937): 843-44.
23. N. Yagneswara Sastry, "The Bondswomen," Stri Dharma (September 1929): 389, 391.
24. Muthulakshmi Reddi, "Widow Remarriage," Kirahalakshmi 1, no. 8 (August 1937): 708.
25. G. Sumati Bai, "The Facts of Marriage - No Fancy of Man," Stri Dharma 14, no. 11 (September 1931): 449-50, quotation on 450.
26. Lucy Carroll, "Law, Custom, and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856," Indian Economic and Social History Review 20, no. 4 (1983): 363-88.
27. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, "Introduction: Recasting Women," in Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History, ed. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 1-26.
28. S. Nilavati, "Remarriage," Macombining macrontar Marcombining dot belowumancombining dot belowam 1, no. 1 (August/September 1936): 11-15, quotation on 12.
29. N. S. Ganapati, "Shankaran's Love," Macombining macrontar Marcombining dot belowumancombining dot belowam 2, no. 6 (January/February 1938), 18-27, quotations on 21-22.
30. Bharati Dasan, "The Well-Being of Widows!" Macombining macrontar Marcombining dot belowumancombining dot belowam 1, no. 7 (March/April 1937): 14-17, quotations on 17.
31. Ma. A. Pichai, "Feelings of Pleasure Are Common to Everyone," Macombining macrontar Marcombining dot belowumancombining dot belowam 2, no. 12 (July/August 1938): 10-11, quotations on 10.
32. Sri Mangalam, "The Status of Women in the Future," Pencombining dot below Kalvi 5, no. 11 (August 1916): 261-63, quotation on 262.
33. On political theory and subjectivity, see Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe, 117-48;
34. and C. B. MacPherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962).
35. and Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), 221-69.
36. Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
37. and Mytheli Sreenivas, "Nationalizing Marriage in Tamil India, 1890s-1940s" (Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2001).
38. Mrs. Munshi, "Dominion Status in Matrimony," Stri Dharma (July 1931): 397-99, quotation on 398-99.