Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader - Softcover

Sunaina Arya And Aakash Singh Rathore; Aakash Singh Rathore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367438410 ISBN 13: 9780367438418

Publisher: Routledge (Manohar), 2019

Synopsis

Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and re-thinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm, namely that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing gender-based injustices.

Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the essays in the volume discuss key themes such as Indian Feminism versus Dalit Feminism; the emerging concept of Dalit patriarchy; the predecessors of Dalit feminism, such as Phule and Ambedkar; the meaning and value of lived experience; the concept of Difference; the analogical relationship between black feminism and Dalit feminism; the Intersectionality debate; and, the theory-versus-experience debate. They also provide a conceptual, historical, empirical and philosophical understanding of feminism in India today.

Accessible, essential and ingenious in its approach, this book is for students, teachers, specialist scholars as well as activists and the interested general reader. It will be indispensable for those engaged in gender studies, women's studies, sociology of caste, political science and political theory, philosophy and feminism, Ambedkar studies, and anyone working in areas of caste, class or gender-based discrimination, exclusion, and inequality. 　　　

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge (Manohar)
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367438410
• ISBN 13: 9780367438418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262