Gendering Caste

Author : Uma Chakraborty
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Uma Chakravarti
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9381345449

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Gendering Caste by Uma Chakravarti Pdf

The continuous demand for Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (2003) led to this revised edition which analyses the recent socio-economic and political changes that have taken place. Caste-based marriage and control over women's sexuality have been crucial for the continuation of the caste system in India. Thus, caste and gender are linked. Brutal reprisals have followed when dalits and women have tried to challenge caste-based marriage and inequality which allots strict rules of conduct for women and all dalits. Maithreyi Krishnaraj, the Series Editor, highlights the author’s discussion on the new ways in which caste violence targets women and on the changes within the family—immediate and extended—that still keep women subservient to caste norms. She points to the new discussion on an economy in transition to capitalism, and persistent conflicts over religion, language, ethnicity and other differences that relate to gender. The book also includes a new ‘Afterword: Caste and Gender in the New Millennium’, which provides an updated discussion on the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 (known in short as Prevention of Atrocities Act: POA). Erudite, yet accessible, this book enables the reader to understand the ramifications of caste today.

Author : Charu Gupta
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Uma Chakravarti,Maithreyi Krishna Raj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Caste
ISBN : 9353287812

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Gendering Caste by Uma Chakravarti,Maithreyi Krishna Raj Pdf

The continuous demand for Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (2003) led to this revised edition which analyses the recent socio-economic and political changes that have taken place. Caste-based marriage and control over women's sexuality have been crucial for the continuation of the caste system in India. Thus, caste and gender are linked. Brutal reprisals have followed when dalits and women have tried to challenge caste-based marriage and inequality which allots strict rules of conduct for women and all dalits.

Author : Anshu Malhotra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Supurna Banerjee,Nandini Ghosh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Aloysius Irudayam S.J.,Jayshree P. Mangubhai,Joel G. Lee
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Uma Chakravarti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Caste
ISBN : 8189524879

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Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India by Uma Chakravarti Pdf

Author : Clara Nubile
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Sharmila Rege
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Anupama Rao
Publisher : Issues in Contemporary Indian
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Joanna Liddle,Rama Joshi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Neelima Yadav
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Bidyut Mohanty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000506839

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A Haunting Tragedy by Bidyut Mohanty Pdf

This book is a detailed analysis of the food scarcity and epidemics among the womenfolk and other vulnerable sections of society in colonial Orissa. Its major significance lies in the fact that the food crisis, mass exodus and adverse sex ratio continue to raise questions in the contemporary world. Studies of such experiences help in re-designing strategies to meet the challenges arising from natural disasters, wars, pandemics, besides poverty and uncertain production outcomes. The study of Orissa Famine of 1866 explodes the myth upheld by the colonial administrators that women died at a lower rate than men in famines, because they could easily adapt to food scarcity and were supposedly less prone to infectious diseases. Evidence based on historical, sociological and biological factors showed that increasing male migration, much of it, leading to high mortality, explains the change in sex ratio during the colonial period. This work also shows that many of today’s consumption preferences, linguistic usages and cultural habits of people, carry traces of cataclysmic experiences. This book also highlights the fact that most famines are the result of policy failures and, are often rooted in structural inequalities with serious consequences for women, lower castes and the poor alike. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Julia H. Chang
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487543020

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Blood Novels by Julia H. Chang Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, Spain’s most prominent writers – Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós – made blood a crucial feature of their fiction. Blood Novels examines the cultural and literary significance of blood, unsettling the dominant assumption of the period that blood no longer played a decisive role in social hierarchies. By examining fictional works through the rubric of "blood novels," Julia H. Chang identifies a shared fascination with blood that probes the limits of realism through blood’s dual nature of matter and metaphor. Situating the literature within broader cultural and theoretical debates, Blood Novels attends to the aesthetic contours of material blood and in particular how bleeding is inflected by gender, caste, and race. Critically engaging with feminist theory, theories of race and whiteness, literary criticism, and medical literature, this innovative study makes a case for treating blood as a critical analytic tool that not only sheds new light on Spanish realism but, more broadly, challenges our understanding of gendered and racialized embodiment in Spain.