Negotiating women's social space: Public debates on gender in early modern Kerala, India

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-61

  Devika, J ^a  

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Author keywords

Domestic; Gendering; Individual; Modernity; Non coercive power; Public sphere; Womanhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748947117     PISSN: 14649373     EISSN: 14698447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649370500463125     Document Type: Article

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