TY - BOOK AU - Powell,Avril A. AU - Lambert-Hurley,Siobhan TI - Rhetoric and reality: gender and the colonial experience in South Asia SN - 9780195677041 AV - HQ1075.5.I4 R54 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Gender identity -- India -- Congresses KW - Women -- Family relationships -- Congresses N1 - Includes bibliographical references; TOC; Child, mother, and servant: motherhood and domestic ideology in colonial Bengal / Swapna M. Banarjee -- Redesigning the Zenana: domestic education in eastern Bengal in the early twentieth century / Asha Islam Nayeem, Avril A. Powell -- Questionable motives, flimsy alibis: reinvestigating the murder of female infants in colonial Punjab / Veena Talwar Oldenburg -- The body as a metaphor for the nation: caste, masculinity, and femininity in the Satyarth Prakash of Swami Dayananda Sarasvati / Anshu Malhotra -- Learning and teaching about birth control: the cautious activism of medical missionaries in 1930s India / Ruth Compton Brouwer -- 'Making and moulding the nursing of the Indian empire': recasting nurses in colonial India / Rosemary Fitzgerald -- Negotiating modernities: the public and private worlds of Dr Haimabatia Sen / Geraldine Forbes -- An embassy of equality?: Quaker missionaries in Bhopal state, 1890-1930 / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley -- Islamic modernism and women's status: the influence of Syed Ameer Ali / Avril A. Powell; MPRHGD N2 - Contributed articles presented at a workshop held in Dhaka, December 2002 on gender identity and family life of Indian women organised by Bangladesh Chapter of International Federation for Research in Women's History UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/rhetoric-and-reality-gender-and-the-colonial-experience-in-south-asia/oclc/65182890&referer=brief_results ER -