The Gender of Caste

Representing Dalits in Print

Charu Gupta (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2018
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74422-3 (ISBN)

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Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits ("untouchables") and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations of Dalits in the print culture of colonial north India, Charu Gupta enters new territory by looking at images of Dalit women as both victims and vamps, the construction of Dalit masculinities, religious conversion as an alternative to entrapment in the Hindu caste system, and the plight of indentured labor.

The Gender of Caste uses print as a critical tool to examine the depictions of Dalits by colonizers, nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves and shows how differentials of gender were critical in structuring patterns of domination and subordination.

Charu Gupta is associate professor of history at the University of Delhi. She is the author of Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India and editor of Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste, and Communalism.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Gendering Dalits

1. Dirty "Other" Vamp: (Mis)Representing Dalit Women

2. Paradoxes of Victimhood: Iconographies of Suffering, Sympathy, and Subservience

3. Dalit Viranganas: (En)Gendering the Dalit Reinvention of 1857

4. Feminine, Criminal, or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities

5. Intimate and Embodied Desires: Religious Conversions and Dalit Women

6. Goddesses and Women's Songs: Negotiating Dalit Popular Religion and Culture

7. Caste, Indentured Women, and the Hindi Public Sphere

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Global South Asia
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal
Zusatzinfo	33 illus.
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-295-74422-7 / 0295744227
ISBN-13	978-0-295-74422-3 / 9780295744223
Zustand	Neuware