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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814894703321

Autore

Channa Subhadra <1951->

Titolo

Gender in South Asia : social imagination and constructed realities / / Subhadra Mitra Channa [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-316-15358-4

1-107-44104-8

1-107-42339-2

1-107-41896-8

1-107-42162-4

1-107-42026-1

1-107-41764-3

1-107-33880-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 28 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

305.40954

Soggetti

Women - India - Social conditions

Women - India - History

Feminism - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Colonial India and the construction of upper-caste/class women -- Elite women: education and emergence of feminism -- Work and gender relations of a low-caste group in urban Delhi -- Globalization and the emerging gender issues in India -- Conclusion: redefining the feminine.

Sommario/riassunto

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 understood in its social and historical context and as a dynamic and performative concept that emerges out of both collective imaginations and social realities. The use of descriptive and narrative style makes the book readable and enjoyable to both academic and non-academic readers.