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Handbook of Gender

Ray, Raka [Hrsg.]:
Handbook of Gender / ed. by Raka Ray. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012. - xv, 573 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-0-19-807147-1
Rs. 1295,00
US$ 58,35 (D.K. Agencies)
£ 50,00 (OUP UK)
DDC: 305.30954

Beschreibung
This Handbook brings together works that represent the best of feminist scholarship on India in multiple fields ranging from historical to contemporary India. The contributions from eminent feminist and gender scholars are categorized thematically and cover the following areas: law, sexuality, masculinity, caste, media, religion, labour, environment and women's movements.
   In each key area of debate, a classic essay is paired with another that reflects the state of the field today or the vibrant new directions toward which the field is moving. The Introduction provides a unique analytical perspective on the trajectory of gender scholarship in India as well as a comparative approach vis-à-vis western discourse on gender. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Tables and Figure. ix
Publishers Acknowledgements. xi
List of Abbreviations. xiii
Raka Ray:
Introduction: The Politics of Knowledge: Gender Scholarship and Women's Movement in India. 1
I. LAW
1. Janaki NAIR:
The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India. 25
2. Flavia AGNES:
Conjugality, Property, Morality and Maintenance. 52
II. SEXUALITY
3. Kalpana RAM:
Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities: Women's Constructions of Puberty in Coastal Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. 79
4. Nivedita MENON:
Outing Heteronormativity: Nation, Citizen, Feminist Disruptions. 107
III. CASTE
5. Uma CHAKRAVARTI:
Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past. 147
6. Kalpana KANNABIRAN:
A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women. 185
IV. MASCULINITY
7. Mrinalini SINHA:
Potent Protests: The Age of Consent Controversy, 1891. 209
8. Lawrence COHEN:
Style. 249
V. LABOUR
9. Radha KUMAR:
Family and Factory: Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1939. 271
10. Amrita CHACHHI:
Women Workers, Liberalization and Social Citizenship in India. 304
VI. RELIGION
11. Tanika SARKAR:
Heroic Women, Mother Goddesses: Family and Organization in Hindutva Politics. 337
12. Saba MAHMOOD:
Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject: Some Reflections on the Islamic Revival in Egypt. 368
VII. MEDIA
13. Patricia UBEROI:
Dharma and Desire, Freedom and Destiny: Rescripting the Man-woman Relationship in Popular Hindi Cinema. 403
14. Shohini GHOSH:
Forbidden Love and Passionate Denials: A Dialogue on Domesticities and Queer Intimacy. 428
VIII. ENVIRONMENT
15. Bina AGARWAL:
The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India. 453
16. Sumi KRISHNA:
Genderscapes: Deepening Our Understanding of Gender-Environment Linkages. 494
IX. WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
17. Ilina SEN:
Women's Politics in India. 519
18. Mary E. John:
Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order. 539
Notes on Contributors. 572

Herausgeberin
RAKA RAY is Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies, and Chair of the Center for South Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Profile page.

Quellen: Oxford University Press (India); Oxford University Press (UK); D.K. Agencies; Library of Congress
Bildquelle: Oxford University Press (UK)
Bibliographie: [1]


References

  1. Ray, Raka [Hrsg.] (2012).  Handbook of Gender. xv, 573 S.