Gender Caste And Class In India

Author : Neelima Yadav
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Caste and Class in India written by Neelima Yadav and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the status of women depends on an understanding of gender relations in a specific context. Examining gender relations as power relations makes clear that these are sustained by the institutions within which gender relations occur. For women, absence of power results in the lack of access to and control over resources, a coercive gender division of labour, devaluation of their work, and a lack of control over their own labour, mobility as well as sexuality and fertility. Gender equality thus demands substantive transformation, a set of policies and conditions created by the state that facilitate the reallocation of resources, thereby increasing women s control over resources that confer power at individual, household, and societal levels.

Author : Aloysius Irudayam S.J.
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9381017379
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dalit Women Speak Out written by Aloysius Irudayam S.J. and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Women always face violence from men. Equality is only preached, but not put into practice. Dalit women face more violence every day, and they will continue to do so until society changes and accepts them as equals.” — Bharati from Andra Pradesh The right to equality regardless of gender and caste is a fundamental right in India. However, the Indian government has acknowledged that institutional forces arraigned against this right are powerful and shape people’s mindsets to accept pervasive gender and caste inequality. This is no more apparent than when one visits Dalit women living in their caste-segregated localities. Vulnerably positioned at the bottom of India’s gender, caste and class hierarchies, Dalit women experience the outcome of severely imbalanced social, economic and political power equations in terms of endemic caste-class-gender discrimination and violence. This study presents an analytical overview of the complexities of systemic violence that Dalit women face through an analysis of 500 Dalit women’s narratives across four states. Excerpts of these narratives are utilised to illustrate the wider trends and patterns of different manifestations of violence against Dalit women. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Joanna Liddle
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813514369
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Independence written by Joanna Liddle and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Liddle and Rama Joshi explore the connection in India between gender and caste, and gender and class. They ask whether the subordination of women has diminished as India moves from a caste to a class structure, and what effect colonization had on the status of women in India. Focusing on educated, professional women, the authors look at the particular experiences of 120 women they interviewed, and also interpret the larger patterns of social relations that emerge from the interviews. These sensitive stories are told with an eloquence that is often moving and inspiring. For thousands of years Indian women have had a cultural tradition of resisting male domination. At the same time, the control of female sexuality has always been central to social hierarchies in India. Women are constrained in both class and caste hierarchies, to help distinguish the men at the top of the hierarchy from men at the bottom, where women are less constrained. In class society the seclusion of women allowed men to have sexual control over women and to retain the property that was transferred in marriage. In contemporary India, professional women have had success entering the professions as the social groups to which they belong move increasingly to class rather than caste structures. But men continue to control the type of education they receive and the type of employment open to them, and to participate in the sexual harassment of women in the workplace. The concept that women are inferior to men--a concept that is not part of the Indian cultural heritage--is growing. In a sense, working professional women strengthen male control. The class structure is no more egalitarian than the caste structure, as oppression simply takes other forms.

Author : Manoranjan Mohanty
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761996439
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class, Caste, Gender written by Manoranjan Mohanty and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. This volume of essays looks into the dynamic interconnection of class, caste and gender in the Indian political process. The focus is on interconnection (that is a relationship involving more than one category), while at the same time trying to understand each category by itself. The complex issues of caste, gender and class have been studied through a collection of essays that look into the people's struggle for social equality. Social oppression has been analyzed in the context of protests against such exploitation. Anti-caste movements and women's movements have been studied in much detail. The volume is divided into five sections and well-known specialists have contributed pertinent essays. This important book will contribute immensely in the understanding of the contemporary Indian political process.

Author : Clara Nubile
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176254021
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Danger of Gender written by Clara Nubile and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to 20th century Indian English literature with special reference to gender identity.

Author : Charu Gupta
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806567
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gender of Caste written by Charu Gupta and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations of Dalits in the print culture of colonial north India, Charu Gupta enters new territory by looking at images of Dalit women as both victims and vamps, the construction of Dalit masculinities, religious conversion as an alternative to entrapment in the Hindu caste system, and the plight of indentured labor. The Gender of Caste uses print as a critical tool to examine the depictions of Dalits by colonizers, nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves and shows how differentials of gender were critical in structuring patterns of domination and subordination.

Author : Karin Kapadia
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Siva And Her Sisters written by Karin Kapadia and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1995-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the impact of caste and class on conceptions of gender, this book focuses on the lower castes/classes of South India. Examining the lives and work of "untouchable" women in a village in Tamil Nadu, the author explores the recently articulated critique of feminism that race, caste, and class may be more important factors than gender in a person's consciousness. She finds that in South India, caste and class construct gender, at the same time that gender constructs class and caste.

Author : Selvy Thiruchandran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology, Caste, Class, and Gender written by Selvy Thiruchandran and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with special references to Tamil Nadu, India.

Author : Supurna Banerjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429783957
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caste and Gender in Contemporary India written by Supurna Banerjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersectional aspects of caste and gender in India that contribute to the multiple marginalities and oppressions of lower castes, with particular reference to Dalits, Muslims and women. It moves beyond the conventional accounts of experiences of women in unequal social and political relationships to examine how caste as a system and ideology shapes hegemonic masculinity and feminization of work, and thus contributes to the violence against women. The volume looks at their everyday lived realities within and across diverse social and political contexts — families, education systems, labour, communities, political parties, power, social organisations, the politics of representation and the writing of the subaltern women. With a range of empirical work, it brings forth the complexities of identity politics and further analyses its limits in regional and historical frameworks. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and specialists in caste and gender studies, exclusion and discrimination studies, sociology and social anthropology, history and political science. It will also be useful to Dalit writers and people working in the development sector in India.

Author : Anshu Malhotra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195672404
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities written by Anshu Malhotra and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores The Construction Of New Classes. Caste, Religion And Gender Identities In Colonial Punjab. Examines How The Notion Of Being High Caste-Contributed To The Formation Of A Middle Class Among The Hindus And The Sikhs. 5 Chapters-Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.