Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan

Witch Hunts

Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a unique intersectional analysis combining culture, gender struggles and structural including economic transformations, both in the formation of gendered class society, patriarchy and capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781108490511
• ISBN-10: 1108490514
• Artikelnr.: 59257984

Autorenporträt

Govind Kelkar, a feminist scholar, has worked at Delhi University; the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok; Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi; the Institute of Ethnology, Kunming, China; and also with UN-WOMEN. She was founding editor of the journal Gender, Technology and Development.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part I. Culture: 2. Culture and the epistemology of belief in witchcraft
Part II. Witch Hunts in India: 3. Witch persecutions and resistance in India
4. Factors in witch hunts
Part III. Patriarchy: 5. The connected history of patriarchy and witch hunts
6. Creating patriarchy
7. Witch hunting as women hunting in early modern Europe
Part IV. Capitalist Transformations: 8. Accumulation, dispossession and persecution
9. Witch hunts in development: policy and practice
Part V. Conclusions: 10. Articulations
11. Policies for ending witch hunts
References
Glossary
Index.