ISBN:
9781107043619
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (239 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender in South Asia : Social Imagination and Constructed Realities
DDC:
305.40954
Keywords:
Feminism ; India
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Women ; India ; History
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Women ; India ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The book theorizes gender in terms of models generalizing upon historical sources and lived realities
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; How Gender is Understood in South Asia?; Gender and Personhood in Myth and Antiquity; The Relationship between Fear and Domination; More than Two Genders; Feminine Power; The Public Woman; Religion and the Asexual Woman; The Devi and the Dasi; The Applicability of the Model; 2. Colonial India and the Construction of Upper-caste/class Women; Introduction; The Colonial Factor; The Inner and Outer Realms; The Creation of the Elite Woman: 'Bhadramahila'; Indian Outside, British Inside; Patriarchy and the British
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Elite Women: Education and Emergence of FeminismIntroduction; Girl's Education in a Hindu Household; The Curriculum; From Caste to Caste/Class; The Women and Their Kin; The Emergence of the Independent Woman?; Indian Feminism; The Devi in Chains of Her Own Making; The Feminist Critique; 4. Work and Gender Relations of a Low-caste Group inUrban Delhi; Caste and Gender; Caste and Personhood; The Hierarchy of Men; The Dhobis; Gender Relations; The Construction of the 'Other'; Motherhood; The Public versus Domestic Domains; Crafting of Bodies; Changing Dimensions of the City
Description / Table of Contents:
Marriage and Family among the DhobisChanging Gender Relations; The Dasi: An Overview; 5. Globalization and the Emerging Gender Issues in India; Introduction; Legal and Political Impact of the Indian Democracy; The Constitutional Amendments; Law and Women; Individual and Law; Caste and Politics; Changing Marriage Practices; Mobility and the Redefining of Space; The Danger of Being a Woman; These Women are Not Like Our Mothers!; The Changing Family Scene in Urban India; Daughters; Globalization: Creating a World of Illusions; 6. Conclusion: Redefining the Feminine; Society and Gender
Description / Table of Contents:
The Realities of CasteThe Public/Private; Defining the Feminine; Gender and Patriarchy; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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