Social Reform, Sexuality and the State

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8039-9305-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Band 7, 432 Seiten, Gewicht: 756 g

Reihe: Contributions to Indian Sociology series

A substantial contribution to the debate on the role of gender studies in the context of the development of Indian society is offered in this volume.

The contributors highlight the problematic nature of the dual role the state is expected to play: on one hand it is vested with the responsibility for social reform; on the other it is seen as representing and furthering the interests of social groups based on race, class, caste or sex. This duality of the state is particularly evident in questions relating to gender, and male and female sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uberoi, Patricia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Patricia Uberoi Problematising Social Reform, Engaging Sexuality, Interrogating the State PART ONE: THE REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION OF SEXUALITY Wifehood, Widowhood and Adultery - Uma Chakravarti Female Sexuality, Surveillance and the State in 18th Century Maharashtra The Hegemonic Appropriation of Sexuality - Sharmila Rege The Case of the Lavani Performers of Maharashtra Redefining Gender Relationships - Veena Poonacha The Imprint of the Colonial State on the Coorg/Kodava Norms of Marriage and Sexuality Contesting Claims and Counter-Claims - Prem Chowdhry Questions of the Inheritance and Sexuality of Widows in a Colonial State `You Cannot Live in Society - and Ignore It' - Ravi S Vasudevan Nationhood and Female Modernity in Andaz The Celibate Wrestler - Joseph S Alter Sexual Chaos, Embodied Balance and Competitive Politics in North India PART TWO: THE REFORM AND SELF-REFORM OF SOCIETY Reflections on Kulin Polygamy - Malavika Karlekar Nistrarini Debi's Sekeley katha Prohibited Marriage - Janaki Nair State Protection and the Child Wife Modernising the Motherhood Archetype - Judy Whitehead Public Health Models and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 Citizens, Workers and Emblems of Culture - Maitrayee Chaudhuri An Analysis of the First Plan Document on Women PART THREE: GENDER, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE STATE Gendered Negotiations - M S S Pandian Hunting and Colonialism in the Late 19th Century Nilgiris Gender Reform and Competing State Controls over Women - Meera Kosambi The Rakhmabai Case (1884-1888) Rationalism, Cultural Nationalism and the Reform of Body Politics - Kalpana Ram Minority Intellectuals of the Tamil Catholic Community When Is a Marriage Not a Marriage? Sex, Sacrament and Contract in Hindu Marriage - Patricia Uberoi Insanity, Gender and the Law - Amita Dhanda The Impossibility of `Justice' - Nivedita Menon Female Foeticide and Feminist Discourse on Abortion

Über Autor(innen)

Uberoi, Patricia
Patricia UBEROI is currently Honorary Fellow and Chairperson of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, India. Formerly, she was Professor of Social Change and Development at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. Her writings are focused primarily on issues of family, kinship, marriage, sexuality and gender, and on India–China comparative studies. Among her published works are Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family and Popular Culture in India (2006) and the edited/co-edited volumes, Family, Kinship and Marriage in India (1994), Social Reform, Sexuality and the State (1996), Tradition, Pluralism and Identity (1999), Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology (2007) and Marriage, Migration and Gender (2008).