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Gender in South Asia: Social Imagination and Constructed Realities
Gender in South Asia: Social Imagination and Constructed Realities
Subhadra Mitra Channa
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This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and ethnographic materials forming a historical discourse. There is an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations across time and space. The readers are taken on a journey that shows how gender can only be understood in its social and historical context and as a dynamic and performative concept that emerges out of both collective imaginations and social realities. The use of descriptive and narrative style makes the book readable and enjoyable to both academic and non-academic readers.
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Year:
2013
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
238
ISBN 10:
1107043611
ISBN 13:
9781107043619
ISBN:
1107043611,9781107043619
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