Indian Feminisms

Author : Geetanjali Gangoli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317117468
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Feminisms written by Geetanjali Gangoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to debates on feminism, this book considers the impact made by feminists in India from the 1970s. Geetanjali Gangoli analyses feminist campaigns on issues of violence and women’s rights, and debates on ways in which feminist legal debates may be limiting for women and based on exclusionary concepts such as citizenship. She addresses campaigns ranging from domestic violence, rape, pornography and son preference and sets them within a wider analysis of the position of women within the Indian state. The strengths and limitations of law reform for women are addressed as well as whether legal feminisms relating to law and women's legal rights are effective in the Indian context. The question of whether legal campaigns can make positive changes in women’s lives or whether they further legitimize oppressive state patriarchies is considered. The recasting of caste and community identities is also assessed, as well as the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and the ways in which feminists in India have combated and confronted these challenges. Indian Feminisms will interest researchers and students in the areas of feminism, law, women’s movements and social movements in India, and South Asia more generally.

Author : Geetanjali Gangoli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131711745X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Feminisms written by Geetanjali Gangoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to debates on feminism, this book considers the impact made by feminists in India from the 1970s. Geetanjali Gangoli analyses feminist campaigns on issues of violence and women’s rights, and debates on ways in which feminist legal debates may be limiting for women and based on exclusionary concepts such as citizenship. She addresses campaigns ranging from domestic violence, rape, pornography and son preference and sets them within a wider analysis of the position of women within the Indian state. The strengths and limitations of law reform for women are addressed as well as whether legal feminisms relating to law and women's legal rights are effective in the Indian context. The question of whether legal campaigns can make positive changes in women’s lives or whether they further legitimize oppressive state patriarchies is considered. The recasting of caste and community identities is also assessed, as well as the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and the ways in which feminists in India have combated and confronted these challenges. Indian Feminisms will interest researchers and students in the areas of feminism, law, women’s movements and social movements in India, and South Asia more generally.

Author : Poonam Kathuria
Publisher : Zubaan Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Feminisms written by Poonam Kathuria and published by Zubaan Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on the post-1980s period of the Indian feminist movement, a moment rich in new and different modes of resistance, of widespread political engagements with issues of rights, of justice, of identity and much more. The writers here, all well-known activists and founders of some of the most important feminist institutions, describe their individual and collective journeys, bringing attention to the movement, to their struggles, their campaigns, their victories and the challenges they have faced. In using the tools of feminist analysis - a focus on life stories, on oral accounts, on group formation and more - they also make a case for advocacy through legal and socio-political means. Despite being one of the most dynamic of feminist movements in the world, the Indian feminist movement has seldom been recognized as such. And yet, in addressing how women's oppression and discrimination lie at the intersection of complex inequalities of caste, of region and religion, of class, of patriarchy, race, ethnicity, to name only a few, the writers in this volume make a case for the need for constant interpretation, reflection and self questioning, so that the movement can learn and grow. They show how in India, and indeed across much of South Asia, it is feminists who have stood against capitalism, war and violence, environmental degradation and fundamentalism and have forged alliances with varied movements, learning from them, working at strengthening them but also infusing them with a feminist analysis.

Author : Poonam Kathuria
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9385932632
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Feminisms written by Poonam Kathuria and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on the post-1980s period of the Indian feminist movement, a moment rich in new and different modes of resistance, of widespread political engagements with issues of rights, of justice, of identity and much more. The writers here, all well-known activists and founders of some of the most important of feminist institutions, describe their individual and collective journeys, bringing attention to the movement, to their struggles, their campaigns, their victories and the challenges they have faced. In using the tools of feminist analysis – a focus on life stories, on oral accounts, on group formation and more – they also make a case for advocacy through legal and socio-political means. Despite being one of the most dynamic of feminist movements in the world, the Indian feminist movement has seldom been recognized as such. And yet, in addressing how women’s oppression and discrimination lie at the intersection of complex inequalities of caste, of region and religion, of class, of patriarchy, race, ethnicity, to name only a few, the writers in this volume make a case for the need for constant introspection, reflection and self-questioning, so that the movement can learn and grow. They show how in India, and indeed across much of South Asia, it is feminists who have stood against capitalism, war and violence, environmental degradation and fundamentalism and have forged alliances with varied movements, learning from them, working strengthening them but also infusing them with a feminist analysis

Author : K. A Kunjakkan
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170998341
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Indian Realities written by K. A Kunjakkan and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is Primarily On The Indian Situation In The Context Of Feminism With Special Reference To The Status Of Indian Women Through The Ages And The External Influences That Transform Their Life Style In Modern India.

Author : Maiyatree Chaudhuri
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism in India written by Maiyatree Chaudhuri and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2005-03-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is an invaluable overview of the rich history of Indian feminism. It brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate feminism in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explore its theoretical foundations in India. The inevitable association with western feminism, the status of women in colonial and independent India, and the challenges to Indian feminism posed by globalization and the Hindu Right are discussed at length. It deepens our understanding of why, despite the existence of legal and constitutional rights, women are subject to oppressive practices like dowry.

Author : Rukhsana Iftikhar
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9386073730
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Feminism written by Rukhsana Iftikhar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with miseries and problems of Indian women with respect to their social class structure. India is known for its caste system and its economic and political history is based upon these classes. Feminist history is also interwoven with the social classes. Women were treated as private property in medieval India. In this book, women of elite classes in the middle ages such as Razyia and Noor Jahan are discussed. Razyia was scandalized with Yaqut solely due to her gender. Noor Jahan belonged to the vast harem of Emperor Jahangir. She had to survive in a harem, as well as strengthen her political position in the court of the great Mughals. The issues of the spinster princess like Jahanara and Zeb-un-nisa are also highlighted. The purdah had also set a standard for social morals for women in the middle ages. The political and cultural activities of Mughal women were the channels of their catharsis. They were able to accomplish things because they had money and the resources. The women of the middle and lower classes bore the burden of the class, family and society. This book also describes other aspects of that age such as clothing and jewelry.

Author : Irene Gedalof
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134607431
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Purity written by Irene Gedalof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Purity confronts the difficulties that white Western feminism has in balancing issues of gender with other forms of difference, such as race, ethnicity and nation. This pioneering study places recent feminist theory from India in critical conversation with the work of key Western thinkers such as Butler, haraway and Irigaray and argues that, through such postcolonial encounters, contemporary feminist thought can begin to work 'against purity' in order to develop more complex models of power, identity and the self, ultimately to redefine 'women' as the subject of feminism. Theoretically grounded yet written in an accessible style, this is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity, power and difference.

Author : Jasbir Jain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Feminisms written by Jasbir Jain and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Jackson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230275095
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing written by E. Jackson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era.