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Subject(s)

• Women—India—Social conditions [Browse]
• Women—India—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Women—India—History [Browse]
• Marginality, Social—India [Browse]

Editor

• Singh, Lata, 1960- [Browse]
• Sinha, Shashank Shekhar [Browse]

Summary note

"Gender in Modern India brings together pioneering research on a range of themes including social reforms, caste, and contestations; Adivasis, patriarchy, and colonialism; capitalism, political economy, and labour; masculinity and sexuality; health, medical care, and institution building; culture and identity; and migration and its new dynamics. Commissioned in remembrance of the prolific social historian Biswamoy Pati, this volume examines the gender question through a multilayered and multi-dimensional frame in which interdisciplinarity and intersectionality play an important role. Using case studies on gender from diverse geographies—east, west, north, south, and northeast; community locations—Hindu, Muslim, and Christian; and marginalized socio-economic or ethnic habitations such as those of Dalits and Adivasis, the contributors highlight the complexities and diversities of women's negotiations of patriarchies in varied social, ethnic, and community contexts. Collectively, the chapters in this volume focus on three related and overlapping settings—colonial, colonial and postcolonial continuum, and postcolonial. They delineate the multiple lives of gender by focusing on its intersections with other markers of difference including race, class, caste, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, region, and occupation, thereby questioning stereotypes, challenging dated notions and interpretations of gender, and demonstrating the ubiquity of patriarchy."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Writing gender: recasting women and beyond / Lata Singh and Shashank Shekhar Sinha
• Reforms, castes, and contestations. Locating consent: the social and historical contexts of 'choice' in marriage / Uma Chakravarti
• Gender, caste, and patriarchy: anti-caste movements in colonial Maharashtra / Smita M. Patil
• Tribes, patriarchy, and colonialism. Reversing of gender: anti-colonial resistance by women warriors in northeast India / Sajal Nag and R. Lalsangpuii
• Adivasis, gender, and witch-hunting in early colonials Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas / Shashank Shekhar Sinha
• Political economy and labour. Women, union, and the strike against sexual harassment in colonial Madurai, 1920 / M. V. Shobhana Warrier
• Negotiating crisis: the Great Depression and women's lives in colonial Punjab / Indu Agnihotri
• Masculinity and sexuality. Fragmentary histories, subaltern sexualities, and vernacular archives / Charu Gupta
• White femininity--Black masculinity: imperialism, racism, and gender relations in the empire film / The Rains Came, Prem Chowdhry
• Health, medical care, and institution building. Midwifery, childbirth, and breastfeeding advice in colonial Bengal / Ranjana Saha
• Women missionaries in medical care and institution building in India / Rama V. Baru
• Culture and identity. The Muslim courtesans in colonial India / Lata Singh
• Margin(al) Maithili: cultural politics of engendered folk in Mithila / Dev Nath Pathak
• Migrations and their new dynamics. Doing care, making socialities on the move: gendering internal migration in India / Rajni Palriwala
• Mapping marginal terrains: corridors of women's labour migration from Odisha / Indrani Mazumdar.

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ISBN

• 0198900783 ((hardcover))
• 9780198900788 ((hardcover))

OCLC

1390680131

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