The gender of caste : representing Dalits in print /

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Author / Creator:	Gupta, Charu, author.
Imprint:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Global South Asia Global South Asia.
Subject:	Dalit women -- India, North -- Public opinion. Dalit women -- India, North -- History -- Sources. Caste -- India, North. Sex role -- India, North. Public opinion -- India, North. Dalits in literature. Dalits -- India, North -- Social conditions. Caste. Dalit women. Dalits in literature. Dalits -- Social conditions. Public opinion. Sex role. Social conditions. India, North -- Social conditions. North India. Electronic books. History. Sources.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11406809

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ISBN:	9780295806563 0295806567 9780295995649 0295995645
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-320) and index. English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 11, 2016).
Summary:	"Caste and gender are forms of social difference that typically have been addressed in isolation from each other: a presumptive maleness is present in most studies of Dalits, and a presumptive upper-casteness is present in many feminist studies of colonial India. The Gender of Caste enters new territory in its exploration of the gender of caste through representations of Dalits in print media in colonial north India. Among its subjects are images of Dalit women as 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 servants. An array of textual and pictorial material pertaining to Dalits is drawn from reformist, popular, and didactic literature; police reports; missionary records; and cartoons. The book shows how differentials of gender were critical in structuring patterns of domination and subordination. Through a gendered Dalit perspective, it historicizes axes of gender, caste, class, and community identities. Representations in print are used as a critical tool to examine depictions of Dalits by colonizers, nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Gupta, Charu. Gender of caste. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016] 9780295995649 0295995645
Standard no.:	40025926464

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Gendering Dalits
Dirty "other" vamp : (mis)representing Dalit women
Paradoxes of victimhood : iconographies of suffering, sympathy, and subservience
Dalit Viranganas : (en)gendering the Dalit reinvention of 1857
Feminine, criminal, or manly? : imaging Dalit masculinities
Intimate and embodied desires : religious conversions and Dalit women
Goddesses and women's songs : negotiating Dalit popular religion and culture
Caste, indentured women, and the Hindi public sphere
Glossary.

The gender of caste : representing Dalits in print /

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