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Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A journal about women and society.

Author: Steve Derne
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438400861
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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In Culture in Action Derne explores the interconnections between male dominance, joint-family living, Indian emotional life, and a cultural focus on group pressures. Derne emphasizes the Hindu focus on the social group, but shows that men often distance themselves from group culture by marrying for love, separating from their parents, or embracing closeness with their wives. Derne's suggestion that Indian men's cultural focus on the group limits men's and women's strategies for breaking cultural norms offers a new approach to understanding how culture constrains. He shows how the child-rearing practices and emotional tensions associated with joint-family living shape Indians' group emphasis. This approach suggests that the Hindu focus on the group is intimately connected with male dominance.

Author: Lynn Foulston
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782847200
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Explores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshipped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. This book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study.

Author: Kanika Batra
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100043012X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance. The book’s comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, these sources offer a way to examine the convergences and divergences between postcolonial feminist, gay, and lesbian activism. It charts a set of concerns common to feminist, gay, and lesbian activist literature: retrogressive colonial-era legislation impacting the status of women and sexual minorities; a marked increase in sexual violence; piecemeal reproductive freedoms and sexual choice under neoliberalism; the emergence and management of the HIV/AIDS crisis; precariousness of lesbian and transgender concerns within feminist and LGBTQ+ movements; and Non-Governmental Organizations as major actors articulating sexual rights as human rights. This methodologically innovative work is based on archival historical research, analyses of national and international policy documents, close readings of activist publications, and conversations with activists and founding editors. This is an important intervention in the field of gender and sexuality studies and is the winner of the 2020 Feminist Futures, Subversive Histories prize in partnership with the NWSA. The book is key reading for scholars and students in gender, sexuality, comparative literature, and postcolonial studies. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author: Ramashray Roy
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761935162
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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This overview of the 2004 elections in India will play an important role in promoting an understanding of electoral politics and social change at the national and state levels. The volume is divided into two parts: Part One presents national, theoretical and comparative perspectives - on women's electoral participation, caste dynamics, religion and nationalism, as well as federalism and factionalism; Part Two offers studies on seven different states - Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Orissa and West Bengal. The book focuses on tribal politics at a time when the politicization of ethnic identities is being increasingly felt in India.

Author: Anshuman Prasad
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press DK
ISBN: 9788763002431
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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It represents one of the most serious challenges to Eurocentric habits of thought that continue to bedevil current practices of scholarship.

Author: Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791483851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters.

Author: M. Kostera
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230583598
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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The third volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life. The mythical narratives presented in this volume serve as metaphors of an organizational issue that can take inspiration from or be better understood through the myth to reveal an archetypal dimension of organizing and organizations.

Author: Neetu Khatri Kajal
Publisher: Zorba Books
ISBN: 9387456188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Does the Almighty God only reside in a temple? Does destiny always lead us ​to​​ a path of virtue? Is ‘eternal love’ a mere myth? Vanshika’s desire for love and romance ​takes her on an ​unanticipated ​journey. Despite loving her husband Manav, she has been living a compromised married life. When she meets Rishi, events take a turn. She finds herself trapped in situations that test​s​ her ​love and dedication. Will she continue living a life that she doesn’t like calling her own or will she be able to change it for the better? Does she choose to break free or strike a balance between duties and love’s calling? Immortal Love is a narrative about love, romance, longingness, passion, obsession, friendship and devotion. Read on to immerse yourself in a journey that redefines the phrase ‘eternal love’.

Author: Panikkar, Raimon
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608336883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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