Men And Feminism In India

Author : Romit Chowdhury,Zaid Al Baset
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351048224

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Men and Feminism in India by Romit Chowdhury,Zaid Al Baset Pdf

The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men’s engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India. The chapters in this collection respond to two broad thematic concerns: theoretical implications of men producing feminist knowledge and the history of men’s participation in feminist endeavours. The volume also explores the undocumented contributions of men to three domains of feminist activity: institutionalization of feminism in the academy, social movements aimed at gender justice, and male writings on gender and sexuality. Delving into an important yet overlooked aspect of the social sciences, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, masculinity studies, modern Indian history, sociology, and social anthropology.

Author : Nikki van der Gaag
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780329147

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Feminism and Men by Nikki van der Gaag Pdf

Feminism has changed the world; it is radically reshaping women’s lives. But what about men? They still hold most of the power in the economy, in government, in religions, in the media and often in the family too. At the same time, many men are questioning traditional views about what it means to be a man. Others resent the gains women have made and want to turn back the clock. Nikki van der Gaag asks the question: how might feminism improve the lives of men as well as women? And is there a place for men in the feminist story?

Author : Tom Digby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135772154

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Men Doing Feminism by Tom Digby Pdf

The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic, so that men are expected to resist feminism, and feminists are assumed to hate men. That pattern of opposition is disrupted, however, by the continually increasing numbers of men who are participating in feminist theory and practice, trying to integrate feminist perspectives into their scholarship, teaching, work, play, friendships, and romantic involvements. Responses to this male feminism have varied. Sometimes male feminists find some female feminists critical of men who oppose or decline to join feminist projects, but also rebuff the few men who do undertake feminist projects. On the other hand, some women feminists have unequivocally welcomed men as allies in political, business, religious, and academic contexts. The essays in Men Doing Feminism reveal that there is justification for both views, the skeptical and the enthusiastic, because feminist men are as diverse as feminist women. Many of the eighteen contributors to this book--women, men, blacks, whites, gays, straights, transsexuals--use personal narrative to show ways that men's lives can shape their approaches to doing feminism and to convey the opportunities and challenges involved in integrating feminism into a man's life. Some authors argue that men's experiences prepare them to make contributions that are of crucial importance to feminist theory. Others argue that men must radically reform, or even abandon manhood and masculinity if they are to be feminists. In Men Doing Feminism, feminist theory is used to illuminate men's lives, and men's lives serve as a basis for feminist theory. Contributors: Michael Awkward, Susan Bordo, Harry Brod, Tom Digby, Judith K. Gardiner, C. Jacob Hale, Sandra Harding, Patrick Hopkins, Joy James, David Kahane, Michael Kimmel, Gary Lemons, Larry May, Brian Pronger, Henry Rubin, Richard Schmitt, James P. Sterba, Laurence Mordekhai Thomas, and Thomas E. Wartenberg.

Author : Hanna Rosin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101596920

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The End of Men by Hanna Rosin Pdf

Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. “Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." –The Washington Post Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. Today, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: They have pulled decisively ahead. And “the end of men”—the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject—has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” once did. In this landmark book, Rosin reveals how our current state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, Rosin shows how the radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple up—even kill—has turned the big picture upside down. And in The End of Men she helps us see how, regardless of gender, we can adapt to the new reality and channel it for a better future.

Author : Amar Nath Prasad
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 8176256846

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Feminism in Indian Writing in English by Amar Nath Prasad Pdf

Author : Padma Anagol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351890809

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The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920 by Padma Anagol Pdf

Grounded in a variety of rich and diverse source materials such as periodicals meant for women and edited by women, song and cookbooks, book reviews and court records, the author of this pioneering study mobilises claims for the existence of an Indian feminism in the nineteenth century. Anagol traces the ways in which Indian women engaged with the power structures-both colonialist and patriarchical-which sought to define them. Through her analysis of Indian male reactions to movements of assertion by women, Anagol shows that the development of feminist consciousness in India from the late nineteenth century to the coming of Gandhi was not one of uninterrupted unilinear progression. The book illustrates the ways in which such movements were based upon a consciousness of the inequalities in gender relations and highlights the determination of an emerging female intelligentsia to remedy it. The author's innovative study of women and crime challenges the notion of passivity by uncovering instances of individual resistance in the domestic sphere. Her study of women's perspectives and participation in the Age of Consent Bill debates clearly demonstrates how the rebellion of wives and their assertion in the colonial courts had resulted in male reaction to reform rather than the current historiographical claims that it was a response purely to threats posed by 'colonial masculinity'. Anagol's investigation of the growth of the women's press, their writings and participation in the wider vernacular press highlights the relationship between symbolic or 'hidden' resistance and open assertion by women.

Author : Sharada J. Schaffter
Publisher : Bibliophile South Asia
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mass media and women
ISBN : 8185002363

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Privileging the Privileged by Sharada J. Schaffter Pdf

Author : Kenneth Bo Nielsen,Anne Waldrop
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783082698

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Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India by Kenneth Bo Nielsen,Anne Waldrop Pdf

The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations have played out at the level of everyday life to influence the lives of Indian women, and gender relations more broadly. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the authors portray the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change. ‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ moves the debate on gender and social transformation into the domain of everyday life to arrive at locally embedded and detailed, ethnographically informed analyses of gender relations in real-life contexts that foreground both subtle and not-so-subtle negotiations and contestations.

Author : Rosalind O'Hanlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009669511

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A Comparison Between Women and Men by Rosalind O'Hanlon Pdf

Summary: Includes English translation of Strī-purusha tulanā, by Tārābāī Śinde.

Author : Maiyatree Chaudhuri
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004863844

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Feminism in India by Maiyatree Chaudhuri Pdf

This collection is an invaluable overview of the rich history of Indian feminism. It brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate feminism in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explore its theoretical foundations in India. The inevitable association with western feminism, the status of women in colonial and independent India, and the challenges to Indian feminism posed by globalization and the Hindu Right are discussed at length. It deepens our understanding of why, despite the existence of legal and constitutional rights, women are subject to oppressive practices like dowry.

Author : Prachi Gangwani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789390077342

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Dear Men by Prachi Gangwani Pdf

'I really loved her but I broke up with her because my mother didn't think she would adjust in our family.' – Raul, engineer, 29 ~ 'I liked being angry. I wanted to hate the world, be angry, so I didn't have to be sad.' – Dhairya, photographer, 34 ~ 'I want a harem. But I want to be the only guy in a woman's life.' – Dushyant, lawyer, 27 In startling, often revelatory interviews Dear Men shows how Indian men across ages navigate romantic relationships in a country that is still teetering on the cusp of modern and traditional. Direct, often tongue-in-cheek, accessible and engaging, the book is an investigation of what sexual boundaries really mean to Indian men, how they deal with online dating, manage traditional gender roles, talk about their mental health, if they think romance is still relevant, what marriage means to them, and why they hurt the women they love. Dear Men hopes to start an honest and open dialogue with Indian men about subjects that are becoming more and more relevant as movements like #MeToo gain traction.

Author : Alice Jardine,Paul Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136204074

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Men in Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory) by Alice Jardine,Paul Smith Pdf

What are men doing in feminist discourse? Although many feminists have commented on the relation, actual or possible, of men to feminist thinking and practice, and although some male academics have written about feminism, there has so far been little shared discussion. Men in Feminism is the first substantial attempt to produce a dialogue between feminists and their male allies. This lively book, comprised of essays by both men and women, is a controversial sally in the current debate over the future of feminist theory. Its focus is one seemingly direct and yet surprisingly prickly question: the actual and potential relationship of men to the now impressive and widely recognized body of feminist writing. Each essay attempts to assess the benefits or damage of male participation in feminism; several of the contributions stand in direct dialogue with others. The editors present, mediate and reflect upon the agreements and arguments in the book, as well as between themselves as editors. Their dialogue-afterword draws together the questions at the heart of the volume. Offering few comfortable answers, Men in Feminism will open up discussion of this theoretical and thoroughly political issue.

Author : Sylvia H. Chant,Matthew C. Gutmann
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780855984519

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Mainstreaming Men Into Gender and Development by Sylvia H. Chant,Matthew C. Gutmann Pdf

Based on research commissioned by the World Bank, this books primary focus is on incorporating men in gender and development interventions at the grass roots level. It draws attention to some of the key problems that have arisen from male exclusion; as well as to the potential benefits of - and obstacles to - men's inclusion.

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 : Alf Hiltebeitel,Kathleen M. Erndl
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081473619X

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Is the Goddess a Feminist? by Alf Hiltebeitel,Kathleen M. Erndl Pdf

American and Indian scholars of religion, anthropology, women's studies, and psychology look at the complex relationship between the living worship of female divinities and women in India. In keeping with the multiplicity, especially of Hinduism but also Buddhism and Jainism, the anthology presents a number of sometimes conflicting views rather than a consistent account. Only authors are indexed. c. Book News Inc.