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...Sarah Lamb The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature . By Rajul Sogani . New Delhi and New York : Oxford University Press , 2002 . ix , 265 pp. Rs 525 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 242 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S Akbar S. Ahmed s...

... , 1989 . viii, 262 pp. $35,000 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Status of Single Women in India; A Study of Spinsters, Widows and Divorcees . By N. S Krishnakumari . Joint Women's Programme Publication. New Delhi : Uppal Publishing House , 1987 . 191 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Mikiso Hane Widows of Hiroshima: The Life Stories of Nineteen Peasant Wives . By Mikio Kanda . Translated by Taeko Midorikawa . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1989 . 183 pp. $21.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 616 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

..., simultaneously critiquing caste and patriarchy. Anandhi and V. Geetha have shown that the support for intercaste marriages and widow remarriage, initiated by the movement, strongly challenged caste orthodoxy (see Anandhi S., “Reproductive Bodies and Regulated Sexuality: Birth Control Debates in Early Twentieth...

...Laurie Cozad Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India . By Pompa Banerjee . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2003 . xviii , 278 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 214 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U...

... of the chaste widow hall in our country]. Dongfang zazhi 32 . 5 : 101 – 104 . Handlin Joanna F. 1975 . “Lü K'un's New Audience: The Influence of Women's Literacy on Sixteenth-Century Thought.” In Women in Chinese Society , ed. by Wolf Margery and Witke Roxane , pp. 13 – 38 . Stanford...

...Carla Petievich Widows, Wives and Other Heroines: Twelve Stories by Premchand . Translated by David Rubin . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . xv, 152 pp. $18.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 555 Rigopoulos...

...Anne Hardgrove Abstract T he legal debate in india over the worship and glorification of sati (widow burning, previously spelled “suttee”) stands unresolved at present. After several years of controversy, the practice of worshipping sati was made illegal in 1987 after the death of a young Rajput...

... and specific knowledge of each other. Virtually the only effort for social reform well publicized throughout the country had been Vidyasagar's Widow Remarriage movement, which however was never nationally organized and which found local support only when a reformer felt inclined to press for it; the founder...

... Abstract The Journal regrets that the obituary of Edwin O. Reischauer ( JAS 50:1) misstated the name of his widow. She is Haru Matsukata Reischauer. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 Obituary SUKHAMOY CHAKRAVARTY (1934-1990) Sukhamoy Chakravarty, one of India's...

... Marriage and the Revival of Widow Chastity in Yuan China .” Asia Major 8 ( 2 ): 107 –6. Blake C. Fred . 1978 . “ Death and Abuse in Marriage Laments: The Curse of Chinese Brides .” Asian Folklore Studies 37 ( 1 ): 13 —33. Bray Francesca . 1997 . Technology and Gender: Fabrics...

... . Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988. xvi, 172 pp. $36.00 (paper). In this intriguingly titled book T'ien Ju-k'ang attempts to document and explain the rising incidence and commemoration of widow chastity and suicide in the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. After describing the gradual increase in official rewards...

.... WEINBAUM Washington, D.C. The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature. By RAJUL SOGANI. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix, 265 pp. Rs 525 (cloth). The theme of widowhood has occupied an important place in Indian literature over the past 150 years. Arguably the most oppressed...

...). In this intriguingly titled book T'ien Ju-k'ang attempts to document and explain the rising incidence and commemoration of widow chastity and suicide in the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. After describing the gradual increase in official rewards for female marital fidelity during the Ming period, T'ien sensibly suggests...

... the relationship of wives, widows, and daughters to joint families and their property. It was only in the 1930s, however, that women s property rights were articulated with women as the subjects of the matter, yet even this was restricted, as we shall see, by both colonial and nationalist interpretations...

... that the link between succession to the ancestral cult and transmission of property was severed. Daughters, even if already married, received shares equal to those of their brothers and their widowed mothers. Widows for the first time were given full ownership of a share of the estate, but no longer any veto...

... in some measure possess a special power or status himself, often a special relationship to the person who afflicts. It is for this reason that the husband and wife must be extremely careful in their mutual contacts, a subject which will be examined later.17 Widows were subject to many restraints. They did...

..., medicine acted as an important ideological force for the support of the Confucian family system. Widows in the Kinship, Class, and Community Structures of Qing Dynasty China SUSAN MANN Pages 3 7 - 5 6 The ideal of the celibate widow, who remained faithful to her deceased husband and refused to remarry...

... remarriage as the ultimate solution to the oppression of widows and their economic and sexual exploitation, many others had deep reservations, re ecting the strong climate of opinion within upper-caste Hindu society. In many novels, then, even if an upper-caste widow gets remarried, she does not achieve...

... by the confrontation between nomadic (Mongol) and sedentary (Chinese) societies. One major impact of this encounter with regard to gender and property laws lay in the congruence of Chinese resistance to the Mongol practice of levirate with Song Confucian ideals of widow chastity. Simply put, in order to avoid marriage...