【2014】 Gender in South Asia: Social Imagination and Constructed Realities
Book 图书名称: Gender in South Asia: Social Imagination and Constructed Realities
Author 作者: Professor Howard C. Kunreuther, Professor Mark V. Pauly, Dr Stacey McMorrow
Publisher 出版社: Cambridge University Press
Page 页数: 238
Publishing Date 出版时间: Jul 18, 2014
Language 语言: English
Size 大小: 2 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN: 1107043611, 9781107043619
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and ethnographic materials forming a historical discourse. There is an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations across time and space. The readers are taken on a journey that shows how gender can only be understood in its social and historical context and as a dynamic and performative concept that emerges out of both collective imaginations and social realities. The use of descriptive and narrative style makes the book readable and enjoyable to both academic and non-academic readers.