Dalit Feminist Theory

Author : Sunaina Arya,Aakash Singh Rathore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000651485

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Dalit Feminist Theory by Sunaina Arya,Aakash Singh Rathore Pdf

Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm, namely, that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing gender-based injustices. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the chapters in the volume discuss key themes such as Indian feminism versus Dalit feminism; the emerging concept of Dalit patriarchy; the predecessors of Dalit feminism, such as Phule and Ambedkar; the meaning and value of lived experience; the concept of Difference; the analogical relationship between Black feminism and Dalit feminism; the intersectionality debate; and the theory-versus-experience debate. They also provide a conceptual, historical, empirical and philosophical understanding of feminism in India today. Accessible, essential and ingenious in its approach, this book is for students, teachers and specialist scholars, as well as activists and the interested general reader. It will be indispensable for those engaged in gender studies, women’s studies, sociology of caste, political science and political theory, philosophy and feminism, Ambedkar studies, and for anyone working in the areas of caste, class or gender-based discrimination, exclusion and inequality.

Author : S. Anandhi,Karin Kapadia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351797191

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Dalit Women by S. Anandhi,Karin Kapadia Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: We ask you to rethink: Different Dalit women and their subaltern politics -- Part I Imagining a new Dalit women's politics -- 1 Foreword: Dalits, Dalit women and the Indian State -- 2 For another difference: Agency, representation and Dalit women in contemporary India -- Part II Dalit women's conceptualizations of caste difference and their means of collectivization -- 3 Gendered negotiations of caste identity: Dalit women's activism in rural Tamil Nadu -- 4 Liberation panthers and pantheresses? Gender and Dalit party politics in South India -- 5 Microcredit self-help groups and Dalit women: Overcoming or essentializing caste difference? -- Part III A broken empowerment? Are women still trapped by caste and patriarchy? -- 6 Dalit women, rape and the revitalisation of patriarchy? -- 7 Different Dalit women speak differently: Unravelling, through an intersectional lens, narratives of agency and activism from everyday life in rural Uttar Pradesh -- 8 Subsidising capitalism and male labour: The scandal of unfree Dalit female labour relations -- Part IV Religion as Dalit political practice -- 9 Transformation and the suffering subject: Caste-class and gender in slum Pentecostal discourse -- 10 Improper politics: The praxis of subalterns in Chennai -- Afterword: The burden of caste: Scholarship, democratic movements and activism

Author : Sharmila Rege
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789383074679

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Writing Caste/Writing Gender by Sharmila Rege Pdf

'The women tell it like it is... So riveting is the narration that it is difficult to put down the book until their stories are finished. For a non-fiction academic work this is no small feat.’ — The Hindu Sharmila Rege’s path breaking study of Dalit women’s writings and lives offers a powerful counter-narrative to the mainstream assumptions about the development of feminism in India in the 20th century. Extensive extracts from eight Dalit women’s writings cover issues such as food and hunger, community, caste, labour, education, violence, resistance and collective struggle. The voices that resound throughout the book, reveal that Dalit feminism, far from being ‘silent’ as so often presumed, is rich, powerful, layered – and highly articulate. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Anandita Pan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Dalit women
ISBN : 9354792685

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Mapping Dalit Feminism by Anandita Pan Pdf

In this path-breaking study, a first in many ways, Anandita Pan argues that dalit women are an intersectional category, simultaneously affected by caste and gender. The use of intersectionality permits observation of the ways in which different forms of discrimination combine and overlap, challenging the apparent homogeneity of the categories 'woman' and 'dalit' as seen by mainstream Indian Feminism and Dalit Politics. This points to the difference between women and dalit women and the latter with dalit men, which leave them unrepresented. The book investigates the questions of 'selfhood', identity, representation and epistemology which reveal the 'savarnanization' of 'Indian woman' and the masculinization of 'dalit'. There is an incisive discussion of knowledge produced about dalit women and the intervention and contribution of Dalit Feminism therein. The book concludes with the question of who can be or become a dalit feminist, intriguingly, not a limited category.

Author : Roja Singh
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643909152

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Spotted Goddesses by Roja Singh Pdf

Roja Singh's critical ethnography on caste and gender is rooted in interactions, and lived experiences in communities of Dalit women in Tamil Nadu, India. Situated in transnational feminist discourses, Singh's perspective as a Dalit woman, provides an intersectional social analysis of power structures that sustain caste dominance in South India today. She describes strategies of social change in Dalit women's activism as rooted in subversive applications of imposed identities of "difference" thwarting social boundaries and punishment traditions. The core of this Interdisciplinary work is Dalit women's songs, oral and written testimonial narratives, including Singh's personal story.

Author : Anupama Rao
Publisher : Issues in Contemporary Indian
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114219756

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Gender and Caste by Anupama Rao Pdf

Contributed articles on the issues related to Dalit women in India.

Author : S. Anandhi,Karin Kapadia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351797184

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Dalit Women by S. Anandhi,Karin Kapadia Pdf

Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geographies are shaping the subjectivities of Dalits across India in ways that are neither fixed nor predictable. It brings together ethnographies from across India to explore caste politics, Dalit feminism and patriarchy, religion, economics and the continued socio-economic and political marginalisation of Dalits. With contributions from major academics this is an indispensable book for researchers, teachers and students working on new political expressions, gender identities, social inequalities and the continuing use of the notion of ‘caste’ identity in the oppression of subalterns in contemporary India. It will be essential reading in the disciplines of politics, gender, social exclusion studies, sociology and social anthropology.

Author : Ania Loomba,Ritty A. Lukose
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822351795

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South Asian Feminisms by Ania Loomba,Ritty A. Lukose Pdf

This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally.

Author : Pāmā
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Abused women
ISBN : 0195670884

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Sangati by Pāmā Pdf

This translation of the Tamil novel Sangati is a fine example of Dalit writing, and flouts any received notions of what a novel should be. It has no plot in the normal sense, nor any main characters. In terms of structure, it seeks to create a Dalit-feminist perspective and explores the impact of a number of discriminations--compounded above all, by poverty--suffered by Dalit women.

Author : Urmila Pawar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231520577

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The Weave of My Life by Urmila Pawar Pdf

"My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing are organically linked. The weave is similar. It is the weave of pain, suffering, and agony that links us." Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. Forbidden from performing anything but the most undesirable and unsanitary duties, for years Dalits were believed to be racially inferior and polluted by nature and were therefore forced to live in isolated communities. Pawar grew up on the rugged Konkan coast, near Mumbai, where the Mahar Dalits were housed in the center of the village so the upper castes could summon them at any time. As Pawar writes, "the community grew up with a sense of perpetual insecurity, fearing that they could be attacked from all four sides in times of conflict. That is why there has always been a tendency in our people to shrink within ourselves like a tortoise and proceed at a snail's pace." Pawar eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Though she writes in Marathi, she has found fame in all of India. In this frank and intimate memoir, Pawar not only shares her tireless effort to surmount hideous personal tragedy but also conveys the excitement of an awakening consciousness during a time of profound political and social change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Dalits
ISBN : 935287370X

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The Prisons We Broke by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rajinder Kumar Dhawan,Sumita Puri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Dalits in literature
ISBN : 9382186840

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Bama by Rajinder Kumar Dhawan,Sumita Puri Pdf

Author : Uma Chakraborty
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Caste
ISBN : 8185604541

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Gendering Caste Through a Feminist Lens by Uma Chakraborty Pdf

Examining the crucial linkages between caste and gender, undertaken, perhaps, for the first time, Uma Chakravarti unmasks the mystique of consensus in the workings of the caste system to reveal the underlying violence and coercion that perpetuate a severely hierarchical and unequal society. The subordination of women and the control of female sexuality are crucial to the maintenance of the caste system, creating what feminist scholars have termed brahmanical patriarchy. She discusses the range of patriarchal practices within the larger framework of sexuality, labour and access to material resources, and also focuses on the centrality of endogamous marriages that maintain the system. Erudite yet accessible, this book enables the reader to understand the interface of gender and caste and to participate in its critical analysis.

Author : Gita Chadha,M.T. Joseph
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429895333

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Re-Imagining Sociology in India by Gita Chadha,M.T. Joseph Pdf

This book maps the intersections between sociology and feminism in the Indian context. It retrieves the lives and work of women pioneers of and in sociology, asking crucial questions of their feminisms and their sociologies. The chapters address the experiential realities of women in the field, pedagogical issues, methodological frameworks, mentoring processes and artistic engagements with academic work. The volume’s strength lies in bringing together Indian scholars from diverse social backgrounds and regions, reflecting on the specificity of the Indian social sciences. The chapters cover a range of key areas, including sexuality, law, environment, science and medicine. This volume will greatly interest students, teachers, researchers and practitioners of sociology, women’s studies, gender studies and feminism, politics and postcolonial studies.

Author : Heidi E. Grasswick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402068355

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Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science by Heidi E. Grasswick Pdf

Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. In addition to a recognition of the power of knowledge itself and its effects on women’s lives, a central feature of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science has been the attention they draw to the role of power dynamics within knowledge-seeking practices and the implications of these dynamics for our understandings of knowledge, science, and epistemology. Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge collects new works that address today’s key challenges for a power-sensitive feminist approach to questions of knowledge and scientific practice. The essays build upon established work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, offering new developments in the fields, and representing the broad array of the feminist work now being done and the many ways in which feminists incorporate power dynamics into their analyses.