Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction / Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- 2. Motherhood, mothers, mothering : a multi-dimensional perspective / Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- 3. Motherhood in ancient India / Sukumari Bhattacharji -- 4. In search of the great Indian goddess : motherhood unbound / Kamala Ganesh -- 5. In the idiom of loss : ideology of motherhood in television serials--Mahabharata and Ramayana / Prabha Krishnan -- 6. Representing nationalism : ideology of motherhood in colonial Bengal / Jasodhara Bagchi -- 7. Mother, mother-community and mother-politics in Tamil Nadu / C.S. Lakshmi -- 8. The mother in Sane Guruji's Shyamchi Ai / Shanta Gokhale -- 9. Rites de passage of matrescence and social construction of motherhood among the Coorgs in south India / Veena Poonacha -- 10. Motherhood : different voices / Divya Pandey -- 11. Images of motherhood : the Hindu code bill discourse / Chitra Sinha.

Contributed articles presented earlier at a residential workshop commenting on motherhood and feminist thoughts in India.

The continuous demand for Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (2003) led to this revised edition which analyses the recent socio-economic and political changes that have taken place. Caste-based marriage and control over women's sexuality have been crucial for the continuation of the caste system in India. Thus, caste and gender are linked. Brutal reprisals have followed when dalits and women have tried to challenge caste-based marriage and inequality which allots strict rules of conduct for women and all dalits.