Subhadra Mitra Channa

Gender in South Asia

Social Imagination and Constructed Realities

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Produktbeschreibung

The book theorizes gender in terms of models generalizing upon historical sources and lived realities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781107043619
• ISBN-10: 1107043611
• Artikelnr.: 39303955

Autorenporträt

Subhadra Mitra Channa is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delhi. Her areas of interest include the study of marginal groups belonging to Dalits, tribes and women as a category. Professor Channa was the President of the Indian Anthropological Association and is the Editor of The Indian Anthropologist, the journal of the Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Colonial India and the construction of upper-caste/class women
3. Elite women: education and emergence of feminism
4. Work and gender relations of a low-caste group in urban Delhi
5. Globalization and the emerging gender issues in India
6. Conclusion: redefining the feminine
Bibliography
Index.