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Gender and Masculinities: Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka book cover

1st Edition

Gender and Masculinities Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka

Edited By Assa Doron, Alex Broom Copyright 2014
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make up ‘masculinities’ remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often misrepresented facet of gender relations and cultural dynamics. Gender and Masculinities offers a... Read more
1. Introduction: Gender and Masculinities: History, Ideologies and Daily Life Assa Doron and Alex Broom Part I: History and Society 2. What Durga Bhabhi Did Next — Or, Was there a Gendered Agenda in Revolutionary Circles? Kama Maclean 3. Troubling Bodies: ‘Eunuchs,’ Masculinity and Impotence in Colonial North India Jessica Hinchy 4. Bodies In/Out of Place: Hegemonic Masculinity and Kamins’ Motherhood in Indian Coal Mines Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Part II: Dislocated Masculinities 5. What’s in it for the Man? Models of Masculinity in the Worship of the Goddess K?m?khy? Brenda Dobia 6. Being a Tribal Man: Migration, Morality, and Masculinity Duncan McDuie-Ra Part III: Texts and Contexts 7. Perfect Wedding, Penniless Life: Ali and Fatima in a Sri Lankan Malay Text Ronit Ricci 8. Can the Subaltern Eat? Modernity, Masculinity and Consumption in the Indian FamilyIra Raja

Biography

Assa Doron is a Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. He is author of Life on the Ganga: Boatmen and the Ritual economy of Banaras (Cambridge University Press/Foundation, 2013); and co-author (with Robin Jeffrey) of The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life (Harvard/Hurst, 2013). Alex Broom is Associate Professor of Sociology and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. He specialises in the sociology of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) and the sociology of cancer and end-of-life care. Recent publications include: Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Cancer Care (Routledge, 2007), Therapeutic Pluralism (Routledge, 2008), Men's Health: Body, Identity and Social Context (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia (Routledge, 2011).

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