Handbook of Gender / edited by Raka Ray.

Contributor(s):

Ray, Raka

Publication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 573 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780198071471
0198071477

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DDC classification:

342.0878 RAY 23

LOC classification:

HQ1075.5.I4 H36 2012

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Incomplete contents:

Content: The Politics of Knowledge: The Women's Movement and Gender Scholarship in India, Raka Ray; Part I: Law; 1. The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India, Janaki Nair; 2. Conjugality, Property, Morality and Maintenance, Flavia Agnes; Part II: Sexuality; 3. Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities: Women's Constructions of Puberty in Coastal Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, Kalpana Ram; 4. Outing Heteronormativity: Nation, Citizen, Feminist Disruptions, Nivedita Menon; Part III: Masculinity; 5. Potent Protests: The Age of Consent Controversy, 1891, Mrinalini Sinha; 6. Style, Lawrence Cohen; Part IV: Caste; 7. Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past, Uma Chakravarti; 8. A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women, Kalpana Kannabiran; Part V: Media; 9. Dharma and Desire, Freedom and Destiny: Rescripting the Man-woman Relationship in Popular Hindi Cinema, Patricia Uberoi; 10. Forbidden Love and Passionate Denials: A Dialogue on Domesticities and Queer Intimacy, Shohini Ghosh; Part VI: Religion; 11. Heroic Women, Mother Goddesses: Family and Organization in Hindutva Politics, Tanika Sarkar; 12. Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject: Some Reflections on the Islamic Revival in Egypt, Saba Mahmood; Part VII: Labour; 13. Family and Factory: Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1939, Radha Kumar; 14. Women Workers, Liberalization and Social Citizenship in India, Amrita Chachhi; Part VIII: Environment; 15. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India, Bina Agarwal; 16. Genderscapes: Deepening Our Understanding of Gender-Environment Linkages, Sumi Krishna; Part IX: Women's Movement; 17. Women's Politics in India, Ilina Sen; 18. Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order, Mary John

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	General Stacks	342.0878 RAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		26760

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Content:
The Politics of Knowledge: The Women's Movement and Gender Scholarship in India, Raka Ray;
Part I: Law;
1. The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India, Janaki Nair;
2. Conjugality, Property, Morality and Maintenance, Flavia Agnes;
Part II: Sexuality;
3. Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities: Women's Constructions of Puberty in Coastal Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, Kalpana Ram;
4. Outing Heteronormativity: Nation, Citizen, Feminist Disruptions, Nivedita Menon;
Part III: Masculinity;
5. Potent Protests: The Age of Consent Controversy, 1891, Mrinalini Sinha;
6. Style, Lawrence Cohen;
Part IV: Caste;
7. Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past, Uma Chakravarti;
8. A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women, Kalpana Kannabiran;
Part V: Media;
9. Dharma and Desire, Freedom and Destiny: Rescripting the Man-woman Relationship in Popular Hindi Cinema, Patricia Uberoi;
10. Forbidden Love and Passionate Denials: A Dialogue on Domesticities and Queer Intimacy, Shohini Ghosh;
Part VI: Religion;
11. Heroic Women, Mother Goddesses: Family and Organization in Hindutva Politics, Tanika Sarkar;
12. Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject: Some Reflections on the Islamic Revival in Egypt, Saba Mahmood;
Part VII: Labour;
13. Family and Factory: Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1939, Radha Kumar;
14. Women Workers, Liberalization and Social Citizenship in India, Amrita Chachhi;
Part VIII: Environment;
15. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India, Bina Agarwal;
16. Genderscapes: Deepening Our Understanding of Gender-Environment Linkages, Sumi Krishna;
Part IX: Women's Movement;
17. Women's Politics in India, Ilina Sen;
18. Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order, Mary John

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