Re-presenting feminist methodologies: interdisciplinary explorations
Contributor(s): Swaminathan, Padmini | Kannabiran, Kalpana.
Publisher: London Routledge 2017Description: xiii, 360p.ISBN: 9781138098367.Subject(s): Feminism -- globalisation, feminism -- segregation -- indiaDDC classification: 305.420954 Summary: This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative ways, each one going beyond documenting the persistence of gender inequality, instead of raising new questions and dilemmas while unravelling the complexities of the terrain. They also interrogate extant knowledge that has ‘constructed’ women as ‘agentless’ over the years, incapable of contesting or transforming social orders – by taking a close look at gendered decision-making processes and outcomes, sex for pleasure, health care practices, content and Context of formal schooling or the developmental state that ‘mainstreams’ gender. The work foregrounds the importance of intersectionality and builds a case for context-specific articulations of gender and societies that destabilize binary universals.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative ways, each one going beyond documenting the persistence of gender inequality, instead of raising new questions and dilemmas while unravelling the complexities of the terrain. They also interrogate extant knowledge that has ‘constructed’ women as ‘agentless’ over the years, incapable of contesting or transforming social orders – by taking a close look at gendered decision-making processes and outcomes, sex for pleasure, health care practices, content and Context of formal schooling or the developmental state that ‘mainstreams’ gender. The work foregrounds the importance of intersectionality and builds a case for context-specific articulations of gender and societies that destabilize binary
universals.
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