Gender & caste /

Gender & caste / Gender and caste / edited by Anupama Rao ; series editor, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. - London : Zed Books, 2003. - ix, 377 p. : 23 cm. - Issues in contemporary Indian feminism ; 1. . - Issues in contemporary Indian feminism (London, England) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-373).

We made history, too : women in the early untouchable liberation movement / Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar -- Dalit movement and women's movements / Gabriele Dietrich -- Dalit women talk differently / Gopal Guru -- Why I am not a Hindu / Kancha Ilaiah -- A Dalit feminist standpoint / Sharmila Rege -- Untouchability and Dalit women's oppression / Bela Malik -- Dalit women's cry for liberation : "my rights are rising like the sun, will you deny this sunrise?" / Pranjali Bandhu -- Pan on fire : eight Dalit women tell their stories / Sumitra Bhave -- On a Dalit woman's testimonio / M.S.S. Pandian -- The subaltern speaks / Majid H. Siddiqi -- The women's question in the Dravidian movement c. 1925-1948 / S. Anandhi -- Reconceptualising gender : Phule, Brahmanism and Brahmanical patriarchy / Uma Chakravarti -- Periyar, women and an ethic of citizenship / V. Geetha -- Dr Ambedkar and the empowerment of women / Eleanor Zelliot -- Dalit women in western ethnography / Mary E. John -- Caste and women / Leela Dube -- Caste and gender : understanding dynamics of power and violence / Vasanth Kannabiran & Kalpana Kannabiran -- The impossible subject : caste and the gendered body / Susie Tharu -- Understanding Sirasgaon : notes towards conceptualising the role of law, caste and gender in a case of "atrocity" / Anupama Rao -- The downtrodden among the downtrodden : an interview with a Dalit agricultural labourer / Gail Omvedt -- Of land and Dalit women / Kancha Ilaiah -- Unmusical chairs / P. Sainath -- Head-loads and heartbreak / P. Sainath -- The Hindu code bill for the liberation of women / Pratima Pardeshi.

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Dalits--India.
Women--Social conditions.--India
Caste--India.
Feminism--India.
Poor women --India.

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