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Caste, Kinship, and Life Course: Rethinking Women's Work and Agency in Rural South India [PDF]
This paper reexamines the linkages between women's work, agency, and well-being based on a household survey and in-depth interviews conducted in rural Tamil Nadu in 2009 and questions the prioritization of workforce participation as a path to gender ...
Benería Lourdes +24 more
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Dalits and Discourses of Anti-Caste Movements in Kerala, India
This article locates various historical discourses of anti-caste imaginaries and articulations that are imprinted in the historical past of Kerala society. Unravelling historical and social theoretical trends, it examines broadly an anti-caste imaginary
K.S. Madhavan, Rajesh Komath
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The dominant post-constitutional Indian feminist discourse is a product of diverse movements born from different histories. These diverse feminist movements continue to inadequately provide a comprehensive and inclusive theorisation of the relationship ...
Santvana Kumar, Ekata Bakshi
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Transforming Dalit Identity: Education can Empower Dalit
Dalit literature flourished being the mainstream in Indian context with the successful translation of Marathi Dalit writings. The term Dalit first used at the first conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangh. Dalit literature which was emerged in 1960s was the literature of downtrodden backward and disgraced people who were ignored or embellished ...
Kumar, Sanjai, Mittal, Reena
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Marriage, Violence, and Choice:Understanding Dalit women's agency in rural Tamil Nadu [PDF]
Literature on Dalit women largely deals with issues of violence and oppression based on intersections of class, caste and gender. Women’s bodies, sexuality and reproductive choices are linked to the ideological hegemony of the caste-gender nexus in India,
Rao, Nitya
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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eDalit Theology in the Twenty-first Century: Discordant Voices, Discerning Pathways\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
A review of Dalit Theology in the Twenty-first Century: Discordant Voices, Discerning Pathways edited by Sathianathan Clarke, Deenabandhu Manchala, and Philip Vinod ...
McLaughlin, Michael
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Dalit literature has been a major cultural artefact in struggles against caste based oppression and discrimination. It not only negotiates a collective identity for Dalits but also introduces variability in negotiations for the same.
Aparna Vyas
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Changing characteristics of the caste system in India
In India, during the last three decades, the caste system’s characteristics have changed significantly. The caste system has never been an uncontested reality in India.
D.A.P. Sharma
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Much of the literature on Dalits, and Dalit women in particular, focuses either on issues of violence, and subordination based on class, caste and gender, or the relative egalitarianism within Dalit households, which arises out of a context of shared ...
Nitya Rao
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Voicing the Subaltern in African-American and Dalit Women's Autobiographies
This paper aims to analyse two major autobiographies of Dalit women’s literature and African American women’s writing – Karukku (1992) by Bama Faustina and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet A.
Isabel Beltrán
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