01918nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100120008308200250009510000170012024500650013726000280020230000300023036500550026052012890031565000180160465000190162265000400164170000190168120220120092605.0220119b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789381345559  cAL  aEnglish  223a305.420954bPANM  aAnandita Pan  aMapping Dalit FeminismbTowards an Intersectional Standpoint  aLos AngelesbSagec2021  axiv,265 p.bHBc22x14 cm.  a5227b₹1199.20c₹d₹1499.00e20%f17-01-2022  aIn this path-breaking study, a first in many ways, Anandita Pan argues that dalit women are an intersectional category, simultaneously affected by caste and gender. The use of intersectionality permits observation of the ways in which different forms of discrimination combine and overlap, challenging the apparent homogeneity of the categories ‘woman’ and ‘dalit’ as seen by mainstream Indian Feminism and Dalit Politics. This points to the difference between women and dalit women and the latter with dalit men, which leave them unrepresented.
The book investigates the questions of ‘selfhood’, identity, representation and epistemology which reveal the ‘savarnanization’ of ‘Indian woman’ and the masculinization of ‘dalit’. There is an incisive discussion of knowledge produced about dalit women and the intervention and contribution of Dalit Feminism therein. The book concludes with the question of who can be or become a dalit feminist, intriguingly, not a limited category
Contents
Foreword by J. Devika  
Preface  
Introduction   
Theorizing ‘Intersectional Standpoint’
Being a ‘Dalit Woman’
Representing a ‘Dalit Woman'  
Exercising Agency   
Revisiting History   
Becoming a Dalit Feminist: Towards a Conclusion   
Appendix   
Bibliography  a Dalit women   aFeminism India  aCaste-based discrimination -- India  aPAN (Anandita)