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Unbroken chains : exploations into the Jaffna dowry system Adele, Ann

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Ann, Adele

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Jaffna: Malathi press , 1994,Description: 66 pDDC classification:

UNB 331.4

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" UNBROKEN CHAINS " is an attempt to explore one of the most complex social issues confronting the Tamil people of Jaffna - the dowry system. The dowry system as practiced in the Jaffna social formation is a deeply institutionalized, intractable customary practice. it has its own peculiarities and unique history: it is bound up with property relations and socio - cultural practices: it is a major source of the social oppression of women. we systematically explore various socio - cultural issues related to the practice and conclude with an exposition of possible ways and means of eradicating this mode of social oppression of women

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