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The gender of caste representing Dalits in print
"Caste and gender are forms of social difference that typically have been addressed in isolation from each other: a presumptive maleness is present in most studies of Dalits, and a presumptive upper-casteness is present in many feminist studies of colonial India. The Gender of Caste enters new...
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Ranikhet
Permanent Black
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Gendering Dalits
- Dirty "other" vamp : (mis)representing Dalit women
- Paradoxes of victimhood : iconographies of suffering, sympathy, and subservience
- Dalit Viranganas : (en)gendering the Dalit reinvention of 1857
- Feminine, criminal, or manly? : imaging Dalit masculinities
- Intimate and embodied desires : religious conversions and Dalit women
- Goddesses and women's songs : negotiating Dalit popular religion and culture
- Caste, indentured women, and the Hindi public sphere
- Glossary.