Men and feminism in India

The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men's engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India. The chapters in this collection respond to two broad thematic concerns: theoretical implications of men producing feminist knowledge and the history of men's participation in feminist endeavours. The volume also explores the undocumented contributions of men to three domains of feminist activity: institutionalization of feminism in the academy, social movements aimed at gender justice, and male writings on gender and sexuality.0Delving into an important yet overlooked aspect of the social sciences, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, masculinity studies, modern Indian history, sociology, and social anthropology.

Disrupting coherence : self-reflections of a male ethnographer / Pushpesh Kumar -- Masculinity studies and feminism : othering the self, engaging theory / Sanjay Srivastava -- Men in women's studies : a case study / Zaid Al Baset and Romit Chowdhury -- Doing and undoing feminism : a jurisdictional journey / Oishik Sircar -- Reformer-man and feminist man : the end of an era in Kerala / J Devika -- A feminist journey : population and health in post-feminist times / Mohan Rao -- On disloyalty : Srimati Basu -- Men in feminism : LGBT and feminist entanglements over masculinity / Ashley Tellis -- Pursuing masculinity studies in a pro-feminist perspective / Mangesh Kulkarni -- A curious friendship / V Geetha -- Challenging caste, doing gender : paradoxes of male writings in North India / Charu Gupta -- Feminism and the question of man : negotiating the (im)possible / Anirban Das -- Afterword : an awkward relationship : men and feminism / Anupama Rao.