Of 200 million Dalits nearly 50 per cent are women, often referred to as thrice Dalit, as they suffer from the triple oppressions of poverty, being female and being female Dalits. This book ends in suggesting forms of action from Church, society and feminist theology to show solidarity with and effect social change for Dalit women.
Of 200 million Dalits nearly 50 per cent are women, often referred to as thrice Dalit, as they suffer from the triple oppressions of poverty, being female and being female Dalits. This book ends in suggesting forms of action from Church, society and feminist theology to show solidarity with and effect social change for Dalit women.
Mary Grey is a writer and theologian, currently Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK and Professor Emeritus of the University of Wales, Lampeter, UK. She and her husband Dr Nicholas Grey are co-founders of the NGO Wells for India working for water provision and women's situation in the drought-prone state of Rajasthan. She is also a patron and former trustee of the Dalit Solidarity Network UK and has worked on the situation of Dalit women with the Centre for Dalit Studies in New Delhi. Recent books include Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist Theology and Globalisation (SCM, 2003, Fortress, 2004), Pursuing the Dream: A Jewish Christian Conversation with Rabbi Dan Cohn Sherbok (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2005) and To Rwanda and Back: Liberation Spirituality and Reconciliation (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2007).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Caste in a Culture of Globalisation 2. Born a Woman and Dalit: The Poisoned Chalice - the Daily Life of Dalit Women 3. Religion, Violence and Dalit Women 4. Purity, Pollution and a Worsening Oppression 5. The Spirituality of Dalit Women - Sustaining or Oppressing? 6. Dalit Women, Christianity and Christian Church 7. Feminist Liberation Theology: A Resource for Dalit Women? 8. Opposition to Untouchability: Gandhi and Ambedkar 9. Dalit Women - Looking to the Future Appendix A: International Dalit Solidarity Network: Employment and Additional Principles on Economic and Social Exclusion Formulated to Assist all Foreign Investors in South Asia to Address Caste Discrimination Appendix B: Dalit Solidarity Network UK: Foul Play Appendix C: The 22 Vows of Ambedkar
Introduction 1. Caste in a Culture of Globalisation 2. Born a Woman and Dalit: The Poisoned Chalice - the Daily Life of Dalit Women 3. Religion, Violence and Dalit Women 4. Purity, Pollution and a Worsening Oppression 5. The Spirituality of Dalit Women - Sustaining or Oppressing? 6. Dalit Women, Christianity and Christian Church 7. Feminist Liberation Theology: A Resource for Dalit Women? 8. Opposition to Untouchability: Gandhi and Ambedkar 9. Dalit Women - Looking to the Future Appendix A: International Dalit Solidarity Network: Employment and Additional Principles on Economic and Social Exclusion Formulated to Assist all Foreign Investors in South Asia to Address Caste Discrimination Appendix B: Dalit Solidarity Network UK: Foul Play Appendix C: The 22 Vows of Ambedkar
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