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In her seminal work on gender and children’s play Barrie Thorne effectively uses and discusses the significance of Goffman’s expression ‘with-then-apart’ to refer to ways in which children are separated in temporary instances according to gender and come together in other contexts rather than absolute segregation between girls and boys (Thorne 1999).
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Rukhmabai was a woman from western India, who was married at the age of eleven to a nineteen year old man. She did not however, move in with her husband for over eight years. In 1884 when she was nineteen, her husband Dadaji Bhikaji petitioned the Bombay High Court, so that his wife would be directed to stay with bim. Rukbmabai’s refusal to cohabit with her husband, and the ensuing debate surrounding the proceedings of the trial, became themes of discussion in Britain and India, and is regarded as one of the precursors to the Age of Consent Act
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The female counterpart of the bhadraJok, and the Bengali equivaleot of the term ‘lady’.
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The traditional long blouse with pants worn in North and West India and traditionally associated with the Muslim communities of these regions.
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The ghomta is a part of the sari which is used as a veil to cover the head and the face. It was traditionally worn by married Hindu women in front of males and though the practice is less widespread among urban middle class families today, it nevertheless exists in some households, and found on some religious and cultural occasions.
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The Durga Puja or Pujo is the biggest cultural festival of the Bengali Hindus. The tradition of wearing new clothes in this festival, meant that many children and young people were given new clothes mostly this time of the year, where some amount of choice and luxury could sometimes be exercised.
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The kurta is the long tunic worn over the salwar by men and women.
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The traditional garment worn by BengaIi men, in the form of a cloth draped around the legs.
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The exact phrase used by the respondent Mithoo. is gaiya gaiya, meaning rural or provincial in a derogatory way. For want of an adequate translation I have translated the connotation intended by using ‘uncool’.
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An affectionate name for girls, meaning ‘golden girl’.
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Younger brother.
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Aloor chop is a potato croquet and Motorshutir Kochuri is a fried bread filled with green peas. Both belong to the order of snacks or food for special occasions.
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Flowers offered to the deity.
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The original quotation is in German: „Mädchen wird darüber hinaus im Modell des weiblichen Jugendmoratoriums a1s eines “sozialen Wartestandes” die Herausbildung eines individuellen IchIdeals und Wertekanons verwehrt - dem idealisierten “Hocbziel eines jeden ansprucbsvollen Jugendmoratoriums für (bürgerlich gebildete) Jungen. In der “Erziebung des Mädchens zur idealen Weiblichkeit”. die als Konzeption der historischen Mädchenbildung zugrunde liegt, sieht der Autor in erster Linie eine “projeldive Geschlecbterideologie” am Werk, die zur Fremdbestimmung weiblicler Jugend führe“ (Zinnecker 2003a., p.41).
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Sen, H. (2014). Together and Apart: Class, Gender and Generation in children’s Culture. In: ‘Time-Out’ in the Land of Apu. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02223-5_8
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