Gender, caste and the imagination of equality / edited by Anupama Rao.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rao, Anupama, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--India--Social conditions.

Women.

India.

Social conditions.

Dalits--India.

Dalits.

Feminism--India.

Feminism.

Caste--India.

Caste.

Equality--India.

Equality.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 350 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women, 2018.

Summary:

"Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality is a sequel to the influential volume, Gender & Caste: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism (2003). It explores the changed terrain of discussion, and examines how religion, political and economic relations, and debates about sexuality and the politics of representation have reshaped the caste question in contemporary public life." --publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction : the difference of caste and the itineraries of equality / Anupama Rao

Queering caste. Casting religion and sexing gender in South India / Lucinda Ramberg

Transphobia is a kind of Brahminism / a conversation between Living Smile Vidya and Gee Imaan Semmalar

Word and the world. Destitute literature / Aniket Jaaware

Caste, gender and spatial politics / V. Geetha

Caste, sexuality, and the kala of the archive / Anjali Arondekar

Past and present. The women?s question in the Dravidian movement c. 1925-1948 / S. Anandhi

Imaging Dalit identities : performing femininities and masculinities in early twentieth century North India / Charu Gupta

Caste, masculinity, and alternate genealogies of the feminist subject / Anupama Rao

Politics. The?madness of Manu? : unpacking the riddle of graded violence against women / Sharmila Rege

Dalit women and the question of the political / Manuela Ciotti

Caste and/as capital. Urban displacement and the remaking of caste and gender / Varsha Ayyar

Sexual commerce and the street : revisiting the political economy of caste, gender, and sex work on the urban street / Svati P. Shah

Intellectual emancipation. Education, self-respect, and the rise of the new Dalit woman / Shailaja Paik

Gender and caste in Indian universities : some reflections / Rekha Pappu & K. Satyanarayana

Competing inequalities. Muslim women, caste and the beef ban in Mumbai / Qudsiya Contractor

Pasmanda politics and Muslim (minority) discourse in India / Khalid Anis Ansari

Visuality. Dalit aesthetics and figurations of caste and sexuality / Y.S. Alone

Afterword / Prathama Banerjee.

Notes:

Contributed articles.

Sequel to: Gender & caste : issues in contemporary feminism.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789385606144

938560614X

OCLC:

1020076236