"This book examines the construction of gender identities in different socio-religious contexts in the Indian subcontinent. It explores gender identities across many dimensions, regions and historical periods, touching upon, among others, the Vedas, spirit possession, caste and …
"This book examines the construction of gender identities in different socio-religious contexts in the Indian subcontinent. It explores gender identities across many dimensions, regions and historical periods, touching upon, among others, the Vedas, spirit possession, caste and …
"This book examines the construction of gender identities in different socio-religious contexts in the Indian subcontinent. It explores gender identities across many dimensions, regions and historical periods, touching upon, among others, the Vedas, spirit possession, caste and …
"This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context. It critically examines the intersection of violence, gender, performance and power through contemporary interventionist performances. The volume explores a host of key themes like feminism and folk…
"This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context. It critically examines the intersection of violence, gender, performance and power through contemporary interventionist performances. The volume explores a host of key themes like feminism and folk…
With reference to South Asia.
This discussion unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant subject. Focusing on the female, subaltern migrant, it offers a critique from a post-colonial perspective on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, …
Addressing a range of interrelated themes in the ethnographic study of gender, kinship and culture, Leela Dube deals with the complexities of growing up female and Hindu in patrilineal India, and the sexual assymetry of reproduction.
This book - the second in the series of five volumes in honour of eminent sociologist and social anthropologist, M.N. Srinivas - focuses on the changing status of women in Indian society. The distinguished contributors cover a wide range of issues concerning women. These include…
Women in Indian society
by Srinivas, Mysore Narasimhachar
fromSocial structure and change