Stree/ samya Gendering Caste Through A Feminist Lens (Paperback, UMA CHAKRAVARTI)

The continuous demand by readers for Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens, since its publication in 2003, led to this revised reprint edition that provides an updated discussion on dalit patriarchy, revisits recent socio-economic and political changes, including the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989, and has a fascinating section of illustrations on the creation of brahmanical patriarchy. Erudite, yet accessible, this book enables the reader to understand the crucial linkages between caste and gender that continue to support the caste system and the ramifications of caste today. Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi, from where she took early retirement in 1998. She has been associated with the women's movement and the movement for democratic rights since the late seventies. She writes on Buddhism, early Indian history, the nineteenth century and on contemporary subjects. Among her films is Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya: Lucknow 1929-49. SERIES EDITOR: Maithreyi Krishnaraj, a distinguished scholar, formerly Senior Honorary Fellow, Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT University, Mumbai