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Dowry murder: the imperial origins of a cultural crime

Veena Talwar Oldenburg 2002 © Oxford University Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780195150728 (paper)
  • 9780195150711 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • Chapter 1: Conundrums and Contexts (page 19)
  • Chapter 2: The Just-So Stories about Female Infanticide (page 41)
  • Chapter 3: The Tangled Tale of Twisting a Safety Net into a Noose (page 73)
  • Chapter 4: Engineering a Masculine World (page 99)
  • Chapter 5: Local Customs and the Economy Grow Mustaches (page 131)
  • Chapter 6: Writing Lives, Underwriting Silences: Understanding Dowry Death in Contemporary India (page 175)
  • Epilogue (page 227)
  • Notes (page 229)
  • References (page 245)
  • Index (page 257)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
IJHS 10.1 (Apr. 2006): 117-118 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079631
JAS 64.2 (May 2005): 500-502 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25075803
AHR 112.2 (Apr. 2007): 484-485 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4136632
EAA 40.3 (128) (Sep. - Dec. 2005): 709-712 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40313614
JCCH 6.2 (Fall 2005) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v006/6.2hardgrove.html
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