| Siva And Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, And Class In Rural South India Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kapadia, Karin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813334918 ISBN-13: 9780813334912 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: A study of the impact of caste and class on conceptions of gender, this book focuses on the lower castes/classes of South India. Examining the lives and work of "untouchable" women in a village in Tamil Nadu, the author explores the recently articulated critique of feminism that race, caste, and class may be more important factors than gender in a person's consciousness. She finds that in South India, caste and class construct gender, at the same time that gender constructs class and caste. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Political Science | World - Asian |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| Lexile Measure: 1270 |
| Series: Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.02" W x 9.02" (0.86 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines two subordinated groups untouchables? and women?in a village in Tamilnadu, South India. The lives and work of ?untouchable? women in this village provide a unique analytical focus that clarifies the ways in which three axes of identity?gender, caste, and class?are constructed in South India. Karin Kapadia argues that subordinated groups do not internalize the values of their masters but instead reject them in innumerable subtle ways.Kapadia contends that elites who hold economic power do not dominate the symbolic means of production. Looking at the everyday practices, rituals, and cultural discourses of Tamil low castes, she shows how their cultural values repudiate the norms of Brahminical elites. She also demonstrates that caste and class processes cannot be fully addressed without considering their interrelationship with gender. |