Gender in South Asia : Social Imagination and Constructed Realities


Subhadra. Mitra Channa
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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1 online resource (239 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - ""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"". - ""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""; ""The Realities of Caste""; ""The Public/Private""; ""Defining the Feminine""; ""Gender and Patriarchy""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"". - ""The Creation of the Elite Woman: �Bhadramahila�""""Indian Outside, British Inside""; ""Patriarchy and the British""; ""3. Elite Women: Education and Emergence of Feminism""; ""Introduction""; ""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 in Urban 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""; ""Marriage and Family among the Dhobis""; ""Changing 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"". - This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and ethnographic materials forming a historical discourse. There is an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations across time and space. The readers are taken on a journey that shows how gender can only be und
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