The Gender of Caste : Representing Dalits in Print /

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Scope and content: "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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gupta, Charu (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions
Sex role
Public opinion
Dalits > Social conditions
Dalits in literature
Dalit women
Caste
Dalits > India, North > Social conditions.
Dalits in literature.
Public opinion > India, North.
Sex role > India, North.
Caste > India, North.
Dalit women > India, North > History > Sources.
Dalit women > India, North > Public opinion.
North India.
India, North > Social conditions.
Sources
History
Electronic books.
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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
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary

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