Dalit Women

Vanguard of an Alternative Politics in India

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2017
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-138-22106-2 (ISBN)

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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.

S. Anandhi is Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. Karin Kapadia is Associate at the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2017
Zusatzinfo	2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-22106-6 / 1138221066
ISBN-13	978-1-138-22106-2 / 9781138221062
Zustand	Neuware