UID:
almahu_9949383659402882
Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
ISBN:
9781000627831
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1000627837
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9780429328572
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0429328575
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9781000639230
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1000639231
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9781000633535
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1000633535
Content:
This book covers a range of issues and phenomena around gender-related violence in specific cultural and regional conditions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses historical and contemporary developments that trigger violence while highlighting the social conditions, practices, discourses, and cultural experiences of gender-related violence in India. Beginning with the issues of gender-based violence within the traditional context of Indian history and colonial encounters, it moves on to explore the connections between gender, minorities, marginalisation, sexuality, and violence, especially violence against Dalit women, disabled women, and transgender people. It traces and interprets similarities and differences as well as identifies social causes of potential conflicts. Further, it investigates the forms and mechanisms of political, economic, and institutional violence in the legitimation or de-legitimation of traditional gender roles. The chapters deal with sexual violence, violence withinmarriage and family, influence of patriarchal forces within factory-based gender violence, and global processes such as demand-driven surrogacy and the politics of literary and cinematic representations of gender-based violence. The book situates relevant debates about India and underlines the global context in the making of the gender bias that leads to violence both in the public and private domains. An important contribution to feminist scholarship, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women's studies, history, sociology, and political science.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of contributors; Preface; PART I Introduction; Situating India: challenges and propositions; Researching gender-based violence in India: issues, concepts, approaches; PART II Historical encounters and cultures of violence; 1 Of devotional zeal and patriarchal norms: gender and violence in the Periya Purāṇam; 2 Silenced women, speaking men: locating gendered epistemic violence in nineteenth century German representations of India
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3 Gendered behaviour: religious norms and sexual deviance in the Basel India Mission in the first half of the nineteenth century4 Bodies in pain: violence and sexually 'deviant' male and transgender bodies in colonial India, 1862-1922; 5 Sati, childwives, and prostitutes: constituting violence and criminality in colonial India; PART III Minorities and marginalised women: sexuality and violence; 6 Unregistered concerns: violence against women with disabilities in India; 7 Nature of violence against Dalit women; 8 A genealogy of Muslim feminism in Maharashtra: systems and violence
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9 Hijras: India's third gender between discrimination and recognitionPART IV Economies of violence and cultural representations; 10 The Nirbhaya murder case: women as the oddity in public transport; 11 Gender-based violence of economic globalisation in contemporary India: an intersectional approach to gender and violence; 12 Fifty Shades of Grey: a romance that we cannot resist?; 13 Gender, violence, and resistance in Partition narratives; 14 On behalf of us all? Violence against women as a subject of Indian film studies; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Atwal, Jyoti. Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives : Situating India. Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, ©2019 ISBN 9781138506824
Language:
English
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429328572
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