Crossing thresholds: feminist essays in social history India

Kosambi, Meera

The notion of the threshold, indicating the restricted periphery of the `women's place' in family and society, was firmly embedded in the psyche of nineteenth-century women in Western India. Yet some remarkable and articulate women (who are the focus of this book) `transgressed' patriarchal boundaries-crossing thresholds, literally and metaphorically-to make their mark in the public sphere. The...

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