Mytheli Sreenivas
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book PrizeCalculating the cost of life in a transnational contextBeginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all...
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Examines how women's histories are explored and explained around the worldMaking Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women's history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women's and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women's...