Gender in South Asia
Subtitle: Social Imagination and Constructed Realities
Publisher: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781107043619
Subjects: Women, india; Women, social conditions; Feminism
Description: This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. 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.