Gendering caste: through a feminist lens/
Uma Chakravarti.
- New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications ; Kolkata : Stree, 2018.
- 1 online resource (225 pages).
Contents -- A NOTE FROM THE SERIES EDITOR Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Prologue -- 1 Understanding Caste -- 2 The Axis of Gender Stratification in India -- 3 Caste, Class and Gender: The Historical Roots of Brahmanical Patriarchy -- 4 The Formation of Patriarchy and the Subordination of Women -- 5 The Diversity of Patriarchal Practices -- 6 Critiques of Caste and Gender Stratification -- 7 Pre-Colonial Structures of Caste and Gender: An Eighteenth-Century Example -- 8 Caste in the Colonial Period -- 9 Caste and Gender in Contemporary India -- EPILOGUE -- AFTERWORD: CASTE AND GENDER IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FILMOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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Social Science Feminism -- India. Caste -- India. Sex discrimination against women -- India.