Gender & caste /
This book brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate the issue in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explores the theoretical foundations of feminism in India. The inevitability of the association with western feminism, the status of...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi:
Kali for women & Women Unlimited ,
c2006.
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| Series: | Issues in contemporary Indian feminism (London, England)
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005282307-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005282307-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005282307-t.html |
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Table of Contents:
- We made history, too : women in the early untouchable liberation movement / Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar
- Dalit movement and women's movements / Gabriele Dietrich
- Dalit women talk differently / Gopal Guru
- Why I am not a Hindu / Kancha Ilaiah
- A Dalit feminist standpoint / Sharmila Rege
- Untouchability and Dalit women's oppression / Bela Malik
- Dalit women's cry for liberation : "my rights are rising like the sun, will you deny this sunrise?" / Pranjali Bandhu
- Pan on fire : eight Dalit women tell their stories / Sumitra Bhave
- On a Dalit woman's testimonio / M.S.S. Pandian
- The subaltern speaks / Majid H. Siddiqi
- The women's question in the Dravidian movement c. 1925-1948 / S. Anandhi
- Reconceptualising gender : Phule, Brahmanism and Brahmanical patriarchy / Uma Chakravarti
- Periyar, women and an ethic of citizenship / V. Geetha
- Dr Ambedkar and the empowerment of women / Eleanor Zelliot
- Dalit women in western ethnography / Mary E. John
- Caste and women / Leela Dube
- Caste and gender : understanding dynamics of power and violence / Vasanth Kannabiran & Kalpana Kannabiran
- The impossible subject : caste and the gendered body / Susie Tharu
- Understanding Sirasgaon : notes towards conceptualising the role of law, caste and gender in a case of "atrocity" / Anupama Rao
- The downtrodden among the downtrodden : an interview with a Dalit agricultural labourer / Gail Omvedt
- Of land and Dalit women / Kancha Ilaiah
- Unmusical chairs / P. Sainath
- Head-loads and heartbreak / P. Sainath
- The Hindu code bill for the liberation of women / Pratima Pardeshi.