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Siva And Her Sisters
Gender, Caste, And Class In Rural South India
Author: Kapadia Karin
Language: EnglishKeywords
Young Man; untouchable women; Tamilnadu; gender ideology; Final High School Exam; Brahminical elites; Tamil Nadu; Tamil low castes; Non-Brahmin Castes; working class women; Menarchal Girl; Upwardly Mobile Groups; Daily Wage Work; Matrilateral Kin; Upwardly Mobile Families; Piece Rate Contract; Vice Versa; Tamil Brahmin; Married Woman; Tamil Brahmins; Brahmin Men; Puberty Rites; Menstrual Impurity; Marriage Preference; Non-kin Marriage; Brahminical Castes; Piece Rate Work; Close Kin Marriage; Astrological Discourses; Time Rate Work
Publication date: 04-1998
Support: Print on demand
Approximative price 148.11 €
In Print (Delivery period: 14 days).
Add to cart the book of Kapadia KarinPublication date: 09-2019
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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Part One: The Politics of Cultural Contestation, 1 Introduction: The "Untouchable" Rejection of Hegemony and False Consciousness, 2 "Kinship Burns!" Kinship Discourses and Gender, 3 Marrying Money: Changing Preference and Practice in Tamil Marriage, 4 Blood Across the Stars: Astrology and the Construction of Gender, 5 The Vulnerability of Power: Puberty Rituals, 6 Dancing the Goddess: Possession, Caste, and Gender, Part Two: The Politics of Everyday life, 7 "Beware, It Sticks!" Discourses of Gender and Caste, Part Three: Gender and Production Politics, 8 Pauperizing the Rural Poor: Landlessness in Aruloor, 9 Every Blade of Green: Landless Women Laborers, Production, and Reproduction, 10 Discipline and Control: Labor Contracts and Rural Female Labor, 11 Mutuality and Competition: Women Landless Laborers and Wage Rates, 12 In God's Eyes: Gender, Caste, and Class in Aruloor
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