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Handbook of gender / edited by Raka Ray.

Contributor(s): Ray, Raka Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2012Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 573 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780198071471Subject(s): Sex role -- India | Gender identity -- India | Feminism -- India | Women -- India -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.30954 LOC classification: HQ1075.5.I4 | H36 2012

Incomplete contents:

Law -- Sexuality -- Caste -- Masculinity -- Labour -- Religion -- Media -- Environment -- Women's movement.

Table of contents: The Politics of Knowledge: The Women's Movement and Gender Scholarship in India, Raka Ray Part I: Law 1. The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India, Janaki Nair 2. Conjugality, Property, Morality and Maintenance, Flavia Agnes Part II: Sexuality 3. Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities: Women's Constructions of Puberty in Coastal Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, Kalpana Ram 4. Outing Heteronormativity: Nation, Citizen, Feminist Disruptions, Nivedita Menon Part III: Masculinity 5. Potent Protests: The Age of Consent Controversy, 1891, Mrinalini Sinha 6. Style, Lawrence Cohen Part IV: Caste 7. Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past, Uma Chakravarti 8. A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women, Kalpana Kannabiran Part V: Media 9. Dharma and Desire, Freedom and Destiny: Rescripting the Man-woman Relationship in Popular Hindi Cinema, Patricia Uberoi 10. Forbidden Love and Passionate Denials: A Dialogue on Domesticities and Queer Intimacy, Shohini Ghosh Part VI: Religion 11. Heroic Women, Mother Goddesses: Family and Organization in Hindutva Politics, Tanika Sarkar 12. Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject: Some Reflections on the Islamic Revival in Egypt, Saba Mahmood Part VII: Labour 13. Family and Factory: Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1939, Radha Kumar 14. Women Workers, Liberalization and Social Citizenship in India, Amrita Chachhi Part VIII: Environment 15. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India, Bina Agarwal 16. Genderscapes: Deepening Our Understanding of Gender-Environment Linkages, Sumi Krishna Part IX: Women's Movement 17. Women's Politics in India, Ilina Sen 18. Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order, Mary John

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Law -- Sexuality -- Caste -- Masculinity -- Labour -- Religion -- Media -- Environment -- Women's movement.

Table of contents:
The Politics of Knowledge: The Women's Movement and Gender Scholarship in India, Raka Ray
Part I: Law
1. The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India, Janaki Nair
2. Conjugality, Property, Morality and Maintenance, Flavia Agnes
Part II: Sexuality
3. Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities: Women's Constructions of Puberty in Coastal Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, Kalpana Ram
4. Outing Heteronormativity: Nation, Citizen, Feminist Disruptions, Nivedita Menon
Part III: Masculinity
5. Potent Protests: The Age of Consent Controversy, 1891, Mrinalini Sinha
6. Style, Lawrence Cohen
Part IV: Caste
7. Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past, Uma Chakravarti
8. A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women, Kalpana Kannabiran
Part V: Media
9. Dharma and Desire, Freedom and Destiny: Rescripting the Man-woman Relationship in Popular Hindi Cinema, Patricia Uberoi
10. Forbidden Love and Passionate Denials: A Dialogue on Domesticities and Queer Intimacy, Shohini Ghosh
Part VI: Religion
11. Heroic Women, Mother Goddesses: Family and Organization in Hindutva Politics, Tanika Sarkar
12. Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject: Some Reflections on the Islamic Revival in Egypt, Saba Mahmood
Part VII: Labour
13. Family and Factory: Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1939, Radha Kumar
14. Women Workers, Liberalization and Social Citizenship in India, Amrita Chachhi
Part VIII: Environment
15. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India, Bina Agarwal
16. Genderscapes: Deepening Our Understanding of Gender-Environment Linkages, Sumi Krishna
Part IX: Women's Movement
17. Women's Politics in India, Ilina Sen
18. Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order, Mary John

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