Indigenous roots of feminism [electronic resource] : culture, subjectivity and agency / Jasbir Jain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jain, Jasbir.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--India.

Women.

Feminism--India.

Feminism.

Class consciousness--India.

Class consciousness.

Gender identity--India.

Gender identity.

Self--India.

Self.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Indigenous Roots of Feminism is an exploration of the historical sources across India's composite culture that have shaped the female self. Beginning with the Upanisads, it works with several foundational texts such as the epics and their retellings, Manusmriti, Natyasastra and the literature of the Bhakti Movement in order to trace the histories of feminist questionings. The constant interweaving of literary and social texts and the tracing of both continuities and disruptions across time and space enables a perception of the way in which individual struggles have merged with collective resis

Contents:

A people without a history?

The body and the soul : epics : the living tradition

Working through space : patriarchy and resistance

Getting back at men through God

The nineteenth century and after

Articulating the self

Tracing the difference.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index.

ISBN:

81-321-1915-0

1-283-57544-2

9786613887894

81-321-1071-4

OCLC:

808375852