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Dalit or Brahmanical Patriarchy? Rethinking Indian Feminism

Caste, 2020
The present paper argues that the conceptualisation of notions like ‘dalit’ or ‘intracaste’ or ‘multiple’ patriarchies results from a misunderstanding of the concept brahmanical patriarchy.
Sunaina Arya
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Disciplinary power and practices of body politics: an evaluation of Dalit women in Bama’s Sangati and P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change through Foucauldian discourse analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
Through a Foucauldian reading of Bama’s Sangati (2005) and P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change (2006a, 2006b), this paper attempts to delineate the permeation and maintenance of disciplinary power in the social structure and assertion of patriarchal ...
Aditya Ghosh
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Repertoires of Anti-caste Sentiments in the Everyday Performance: Narratives of a Dalit Woman Singer

Caste, 2023
Understanding Dalit women through their lifeworld and life-narratives enables one to understand the caste relations that they negotiate with in their everyday life.
K. Kalyani
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Dalit Women in India: At the Crossroads of Gender, Class, and Caste

Global justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2015
As the lowest in the caste hierarchy, Dalits in Indian society have historically suffered caste-based social exclusion from economic, civil, cultural, and political rights.
Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal, Wandana Sonalkar
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Sex as a Weapon to Settle Scores against Dalits: An Quotidian Phenomenon

Caste, 2020
In the Indian context, caste controls the gender norms as women are producers of the notion of ‘caste purity’. Historically, the violation of caste codes including those related to women have been subjected to punishment through the instrument of social ...
Jyoti Diwakar
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Contemporary Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics

Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2020
Contemporary Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenge dominant ideas in mainstream Hinduism with its inscribed caste and gender discriminations oppressing Dalits.
Pramila Venkateswaran
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Unveiling the Oppressed Body: Female Dalit Body Politics in India through Baburao Bagul and Yashica Dutt

Humanities, 2023
India’s complex social fabric is marked by a rigid caste system that has perpetuated discrimination and marginalisation for centuries. The caste structure not only establishes clear boundaries between castes through endogamous social relations, but also ...
Bianca Cherechés
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The Caste of Campus Habitus: Caste and Gender Encounters of the First-generation Dalit Women Students in Indian Universities

Caste, 2023
This article critically examines the university academic spaces and the campus culture determined by a particular form of the dominant habitus which is, in effect, actively excluding the first-generation women students belonging to the marginalized ...
Anusha Renukuntla, Ashok Kumar Mocherla
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Gender, Caste and Subjectivity: Revisiting the #MeToo Movement in India [PDF]

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2023
The #MeToo movement has claimed to mark a ‘new era in Indian feminism’ by introducing feminist articulations into the quotidian through the powerful use of social media.
Anandita Pan
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Witch Hunting: A Form of violence against Dalit Women in India

Caste, 2020
The Caste system is a social reality in India; despite constitutional rights of equality, protection from discrimination, and the ban on untouchability, discrimination against Dalit communities or Schedule Castes, still persists. Outside and within their
Tanvi Yadav
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