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GENDER
& CASTE
Anupama Rao (Ed.)
Rs 325 Pb 2005
81-88965-20-0
(UK & US rights sold. All others available.)
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Gender & Caste
brings together important texts published, for the
most part, in the last decade. This collection,
the first in the series, serves as a succinct account
of the caste/gender discourse, noting the theoretical
tendencies that frame scholarship in the area. This
volume makes explicit the ways in which Dalit women’s
movements have contributed to unique feminist positions
that are inadequately represented within mainstream
Indian feminism. Brahminical patriarchy stigmatises
Dalit women for their caste position; the oppression
is compounded by the control of sexuality and labour
power by men of their own caste. The exclusionary
politics of mainstream Indian feminism has, for
long, rendered this undercurrent invisible. |
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ANUPAMA
RAO
is currently
Assistant Professor South Asian History, at
Barnard College, Columbia University. Her
research interests are in Indian nationalism,
caste movements and the history of gender.
She teaches comparative colonialism, gender
and feminist theory, South Asian history,
and postcoloniality. |
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invaluable evidence of the materiality and
symbolic power of identity categories…
a model of critical feminist thinking… |
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—Antoinette
Burton
University of Illinois |
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with theoretical insight this book raises
hard political questions about Dalit women
while presenting the scandalizing voices of
pain that make us feel the urgency of such
questions.” |
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—Lila
Abu- Lughod
Columbia University |
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