Titlebook: Burning Women; Widows, Witches, and Pompa Banerjee Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003 culture.gender.iden

单调性

Overlapping Discourses,1928, Edward Thompson employed exactly this analogy in his history of sati. The silence appears to relate specifically to . responses to sati. The following pages will test if such an analogy was linguistically or even realistically feasible for early modern Europeans; that is, could the Europeans w

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Under Western Eyes,ssary for the ritual. Montaigne, who had never set foot in India, was able to reconstruct an account of widowburning in remarkable depth and particularity in his essay “Of Vertue.” Montaigne did not offer his description as an eyewitness testimony, but then he did not have to. The details of sati he

夜晚

Instructions for Christian Women,ons between rural and urban, changing mores from one decade to another, as well as specifically regional variations make the term “European women” problematic. But, I suggest that, despite the vast differences among European women, the dividing lines between one group of women and another were frequ

社团

Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers, an innocent or saintly victim deluded by a cruel religion, others believed that the sati was burned for poisoning her husband. Scores of travelers repeated the same “reason” for widowburning—it was to prevent Hindu wives from poisoning their husbands. Although the use of this poison story was not l

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2634-5897 ng early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of ‘Eastern barbarity‘.978-1-349-73046-9978-1-137-05204-9Series ISSN 2634-5897 Series E-ISSN 2634-5900

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Sonia Schoon,Friederike Schröder burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. The overlapping discourses of Hindu widowburning with European witchburning and ideologies of wifely conduct are compelling for several reasons. The convergences within these disparate, and some would say, isomorphic modes, allow us to unde

Eviction

Obstruction

Sonia Schoon,Friederike Schröderssary for the ritual. Montaigne, who had never set foot in India, was able to reconstruct an account of widowburning in remarkable depth and particularity in his essay “Of Vertue.” Montaigne did not offer his description as an eyewitness testimony, but then he did not have to. The details of sati he

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6674-7ons between rural and urban, changing mores from one decade to another, as well as specifically regional variations make the term “European women” problematic. But, I suggest that, despite the vast differences among European women, the dividing lines between one group of women and another were frequ