Gender And Caste

Author : Charu Gupta
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806563

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The Gender of Caste by Charu Gupta Pdf

Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations of Dalits in the print culture of colonial north India, Charu Gupta enters new territory by looking at images of Dalit women as both victims and vamps, the construction of Dalit masculinities, religious conversion as an alternative to entrapment in the Hindu caste system, and the plight of indentured labor. The Gender of Caste uses print as a critical tool to examine the depictions of Dalits by colonizers, nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves and shows how differentials of gender were critical in structuring patterns of domination and subordination.

Author : Neelima Yadav
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Caste
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120955591

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Gender, Caste and Class in India by Neelima Yadav Pdf

An analysis of the status of women depends on an understanding of gender relations in a specific context. Examining gender relations as power relations makes clear that these are sustained by the institutions within which gender relations occur. For women, absence of power results in the lack of access to and control over resources, a coercive gender division of labour, devaluation of their work, and a lack of control over their own labour, mobility as well as sexuality and fertility. Gender equality thus demands substantive transformation, a set of policies and conditions created by the state that facilitate the reallocation of resources, thereby increasing women s control over resources that confer power at individual, household, and societal levels.

Author : Anshu Malhotra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0195672402

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Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities by Anshu Malhotra Pdf

Explores The Construction Of New Classes. Caste, Religion And Gender Identities In Colonial Punjab. Examines How The Notion Of Being High Caste-Contributed To The Formation Of A Middle Class Among The Hindus And The Sikhs. 5 Chapters-Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.

Author : Aloysius Irudayam S.J.,Jayshree P. Mangubhai,Joel G. Lee
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789381017371

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Dalit Women Speak Out by Aloysius Irudayam S.J.,Jayshree P. Mangubhai,Joel G. Lee Pdf

“Women always face violence from men. Equality is only preached, but not put into practice. Dalit women face more violence every day, and they will continue to do so until society changes and accepts them as equals.” — Bharati from Andra Pradesh The right to equality regardless of gender and caste is a fundamental right in India. However, the Indian government has acknowledged that institutional forces arraigned against this right are powerful and shape people’s mindsets to accept pervasive gender and caste inequality. This is no more apparent than when one visits Dalit women living in their caste-segregated localities. Vulnerably positioned at the bottom of India’s gender, caste and class hierarchies, Dalit women experience the outcome of severely imbalanced social, economic and political power equations in terms of endemic caste-class-gender discrimination and violence. This study presents an analytical overview of the complexities of systemic violence that Dalit women face through an analysis of 500 Dalit women’s narratives across four states. Excerpts of these narratives are utilised to illustrate the wider trends and patterns of different manifestations of violence against Dalit women. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Supurna Banerjee,Nandini Ghosh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429783951

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Caste and Gender in Contemporary India by Supurna Banerjee,Nandini Ghosh Pdf

This book explores the intersectional aspects of caste and gender in India that contribute to the multiple marginalities and oppressions of lower castes, with particular reference to Dalits, Muslims and women. It moves beyond the conventional accounts of experiences of women in unequal social and political relationships to examine how caste as a system and ideology shapes hegemonic masculinity and feminization of work, and thus contributes to the violence against women. The volume looks at their everyday lived realities within and across diverse social and political contexts — families, education systems, labour, communities, political parties, power, social organisations, the politics of representation and the writing of the subaltern women. With a range of empirical work, it brings forth the complexities of identity politics and further analyses its limits in regional and historical frameworks. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and specialists in caste and gender studies, exclusion and discrimination studies, sociology and social anthropology, history and political science. It will also be useful to Dalit writers and people working in the development sector in India.

Author : Abdul R. JanMohamed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000084061

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Reconsidering Social Identification by Abdul R. JanMohamed Pdf

This volume investigates how four socially constructed identities (race, gender, class and caste) can be rethought as matrices designed to accumulate various kinds of socio-economic values and to translate and transfer these values from one group to another. Essays in the anthology also attempt to compare the mechanisms deployed by various groups to consolidate identificatory investments. Drawn mainly for the fields of literary and cultural studies, the essays are grouped in four categories. Essays collected under ‘Theoretical Approaches’ scrutinize the relative value of various approaches; those collected under ‘Considerations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation’ examine the interaction between these three categories in formation of identities; those grouped under ‘Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing’ provide comparative analyses of the literary productions of these two oppressed groups; and, finally, those under ‘The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions’ focus on the role of ideologically inflected perception of European colonizers and the persistence of such perception in the categorization and treatment of colonial migrants to the metropolis.

Author : Clara Nubile
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : 8176254029

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The Danger of Gender by Clara Nubile Pdf

With reference to 20th century Indian English literature with special reference to gender identity.

Author : Anupama Rao
Publisher : Issues in Contemporary Indian
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Sharmila Rege
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Manoranjan Mohanty
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761996435

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Class, Caste, Gender by Manoranjan Mohanty Pdf

Annotation. This volume of essays looks into the dynamic interconnection of class, caste and gender in the Indian political process. The focus is on interconnection (that is a relationship involving more than one category), while at the same time trying to understand each category by itself. The complex issues of caste, gender and class have been studied through a collection of essays that look into the people's struggle for social equality. Social oppression has been analyzed in the context of protests against such exploitation. Anti-caste movements and women's movements have been studied in much detail. The volume is divided into five sections and well-known specialists have contributed pertinent essays. This important book will contribute immensely in the understanding of the contemporary Indian political process.

Author : Joanna Liddle,Rama Joshi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813514363

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Daughters of Independence by Joanna Liddle,Rama Joshi Pdf

Joanna Liddle and Rama Joshi explore the connection in India between gender and caste, and gender and class. They ask whether the subordination of women has diminished as India moves from a caste to a class structure, and what effect colonization had on the status of women in India. Focusing on educated, professional women, the authors look at the particular experiences of 120 women they interviewed, and also interpret the larger patterns of social relations that emerge from the interviews. These sensitive stories are told with an eloquence that is often moving and inspiring. For thousands of years Indian women have had a cultural tradition of resisting male domination. At the same time, the control of female sexuality has always been central to social hierarchies in India. Women are constrained in both class and caste hierarchies, to help distinguish the men at the top of the hierarchy from men at the bottom, where women are less constrained. In class society the seclusion of women allowed men to have sexual control over women and to retain the property that was transferred in marriage. In contemporary India, professional women have had success entering the professions as the social groups to which they belong move increasingly to class rather than caste structures. But men continue to control the type of education they receive and the type of employment open to them, and to participate in the sexual harassment of women in the workplace. The concept that women are inferior to men--a concept that is not part of the Indian cultural heritage--is growing. In a sense, working professional women strengthen male control. The class structure is no more egalitarian than the caste structure, as oppression simply takes other forms.

Author : Uma Chakraborty
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Supurna Banerjee,Nandini Ghosh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429783968

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Caste and Gender in Contemporary India by Supurna Banerjee,Nandini Ghosh Pdf

This book explores the intersectional aspects of caste and gender in India that contribute to the multiple marginalities and oppressions of lower castes, with particular reference to Dalits, Muslims and women. It moves beyond the conventional accounts of experiences of women in unequal social and political relationships to examine how caste as a system and ideology shapes hegemonic masculinity and feminization of work, and thus contributes to the violence against women. The volume looks at their everyday lived realities within and across diverse social and political contexts — families, education systems, labour, communities, political parties, power, social organisations, the politics of representation and the writing of the subaltern women. With a range of empirical work, it brings forth the complexities of identity politics and further analyses its limits in regional and historical frameworks. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and specialists in caste and gender studies, exclusion and discrimination studies, sociology and social anthropology, history and political science. It will also be useful to Dalit writers and people working in the development sector in India.

Author : Anupama Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Caste
ISBN : 938560614X

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Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality by Anupama Rao Pdf

Author : Mary M. Cameron
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252067169

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On the Edge of the Auspicious by Mary M. Cameron Pdf

Drawing on data from work, family, and religious domains, addresses the relationship between gender and Hindu caste hierarchy in western Nepal.