Handbook of gender /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2012. |
| Description: | xv, 573 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford India handbooks Oxford India handbooks. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8956309 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables and Figure
- Publishers Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Politics of Knowledge-Gender Scholarship and Women's Movement in India
- I. Law
- 1. The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India
- 2. Conjugality, Property, Morality, and Maintenance
- II. Sexuality
- 3. Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities: Women's Constructions of Puberty in Coastal Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
- 4. Outing Heteronormativity: Nation, Citizen, Feminist Disruptions
- III. Caste
- 5. Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past
- 6. A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women
- IV. Masculinity
- 7. Potent Protests: The Age of Consent Controversy, 1891
- 8. Style
- V. Labour
- 9. Family and Factory: Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-39
- 10. Women Workers, Liberalization, and Social Citizenship in India
- VI. Religion
- 11. Heroic Women, Mother Goddesses: Family and Organization in Hindutva Politics
- 12. Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject: Some Reflections on the Islamic Revival in Egypt
- VII. Media
- 13. Dharma and Desire, Freedom and Destiny: Rescripting the Man-Woman Relationship in Popular Hindi Cinema
- 14. Forbidden Love and Passionate Denials: A Dialogue on Domesticities and Queer Intimacy
- VIII. Environment
- 15. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India
- 16. Genderscapes: Deepening Our Understanding of Gender-Environment Linkages
- IX. Women's Movement
- 17. Women's Politics in India
- 18. Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order
- Notes on Contributors