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Dalit Women
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Honour and Patriarchy in South India
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Artikel-Nr:
9781138095571
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
21.06.2017
Seiten:
258
Autor:
Clarinda Still
Gewicht:
458 g
Format:
216x140x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Clarinda Still is a Postdoctoral Researcher (Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme) at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford. She has written several papers in distinguished journals. She is also the Editor of Dalits in Neoliberal India: Mobility or Marginalisation? London, New Delhi::Routledge, 2014.
One of the only ethnographic studies of Dalit women, this book gives a rich account of individual Dalit women's lives and documents a rise in patriarchy in the community. The author argues that as Dalits' economic and political position improves, 'honour' becomes crucial to social status. One of the ways Dalits accrue honour is by altering patterns of women's work, education and marriage, and by adopting dominant-caste gender practices. Simultaneously Dalits are asserting a distinct, politicised Dalit identity. Key to both,is the 'respectability' of women.
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