The Women of Totagadde: Broken Silence

This book depicts one South Indian village during the fifty-year period when womenÆs education became a possibilityùand then a reality. Despite illiteracy, religious ritual marking them as inferior, and pre-pubertal marriages, the daughters and granddaughters of the silent, passive women of the 1960s have morphed into assertive, self-confident millennial women. Helen E. Ullrich considers the following questions: can education alter the perception of women as inferior and forever childlike? What happens when women refuse the mantle of socialized passivity? Throughout The Women of Totagadde, Helen Ullrich pushes us to consider how womenÆs lives and society at large have been altered through education.

• | Author: Helen E. Ullrich
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Mar 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 278 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137599685
• | ISBN-13: 9781137599681