It takes the average reader 7 hours and 46 minutes to read Perpetual Mourning by Lecturer in Public Policy Kennedy School of Government Martha Alter Chen
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In Perpetual Mourning, Martha Alter Chen examines both the ideals and the reality of widowhood in rural India, particularly in Hindu communities. She argues that the ideology of widowhood in India is part of a larger ideology of gender that is designed to control women through the institutions of marriage, kinship, and caste in such a way that they uphold, rather than threaten, the social order. Without the restraining influence of a husband, widows represent the greatest threat to the social order, and therefore need to be controlled most rigidly.Chen first describes how widowhood is...
Perpetual Mourning by Lecturer in Public Policy Kennedy School of Government Martha Alter Chen is 456 pages long, and a total of 116,736 words.
This makes it 154% the length of the average book. It also has 143% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 37 minutes to read Perpetual Mourning aloud.
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