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Siva and her sisters: gender, caste, and class in rural south India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford Westview Press 1995Description: xv, 269 p. : Includes references and IndexISBN:
  • 9780813334912
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.40954 K2S4
Summary: This book examines two subordinated groups untouchables and women in a village in Tamil Nadu, 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. https://www.routledge.com/Siva-And-Her-Sisters-Gender-Caste-And-Class-In-Rural-South-India/Kapadia/p/book/9780813334912
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This book examines two subordinated groups untouchables and women in a village in Tamil Nadu, 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.


https://www.routledge.com/Siva-And-Her-Sisters-Gender-Caste-And-Class-In-Rural-South-India/Kapadia/p/book/9780813334912

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