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Marriage, Honor, Agency, and Trials by Ordeal: Women's Gender Roles in Candimangal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2001

DAVID L. CURLEY
Affiliation:
Western Washington University

Extract

This essay discusses women's gender roles as they were imagined and debated in a Bengali text written towards the end of the sixteenth century. Efforts to reexamine precolonial gender roles and debates about them are important for three reasons. First, that large body of research on gender which begins with the colonial period often has obscured elements of continuity between colonial and precolonial discourse on gender in South Asia, and often exaggerates or misstates both the degree of consensus about gender in the precolonial period, and the nature of change in the colonial period.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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