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100			_a Sen,Samita
245		0	_aWomen and labour in late colonial India _b: the Bengal jute industry _c/ Samita Sen
260			_aLondon _b: Cambridge University Press _c,1999
300			_a265 p.
520			_aSamita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
650			_aLabor economics
650			_aGender construction
650			_a social and economic history of colonial India
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