Gender, caste and the imagination of equality
By: edited by Anupama Rao
Publisher: Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9789385606144
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Dalits; Feminism; Caste; Equality
Other titles: Gender & caste.
Description: "Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality is a sequel to the influential volume, Gender & Caste: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism (2003). It explores the changed terrain of discussion, and examines how religion, political and economic relations, and debates about sexuality and the politics of representation have reshaped the caste question in contemporary public life."
Notes: Contributed articles.

Sequel to: Gender & caste : issues in contemporary feminism.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the difference of caste and the itineraries of equality / Anupama Rao; title: Queering caste. Casting religion and sexing gender in South India / Lucinda Ramberg; title: Transphobia is a kind of Brahminism / a conversation between Living Smile Vidya and Gee Imaan Semmalar; title: Word and the world. Destitute literature / Aniket Jaaware; title: Caste, gender and spatial politics / V. Geetha; title: Caste, sexuality, and the kala of the archive / Anjali Arondekar; title: Past and present. The women?s question in the Dravidian movement c. 1925-1948 / S. Anandhi; title: Imaging Dalit identities : performing femininities and masculinities in early twentieth century North India / Charu Gupta; title: Caste, masculinity, and alternate genealogies of the feminist subject / Anupama Rao; title: Politics. The ?madness of Manu? : unpacking the riddle of graded violence against women / Sharmila Rege; title: Dalit women and the question of the political / Manuela Ciotti; title: Caste and/as capital. Urban displacement and the remaking of caste and gender / Varsha Ayyar; title: Sexual commerce and the street : revisiting the political economy of caste, gender, and sex work on the urban street / Svati P. Shah; title: Intellectual emancipation. Education, self-respect, and the rise of the new Dalit woman / Shailaja Paik; title: Gender and caste in Indian universities : some reflections / Rekha Pappu & K. Satyanarayana; title: Competing inequalities. Muslim women, caste and the beef ban in Mumbai / Qudsiya Contractor; title: Pasmanda politics and Muslim (minority) discourse in India / Khalid Anis Ansari; title: Visuality. Dalit aesthetics and figurations of caste and sexuality / Y.S. Alone; title: Afterword / Prathama Banerjee.