Men and Feminism in India

ISBN-13: 9780367735135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Romit Chowdhury; Zaid Al Baset

Opis

The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men’s engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India.

Spis treści

Acknowledgement Introduction  Part I: Institutions 1. Disrupting Coherence: Self Reflections of a Male Ethnographer  2. Masculinity Studies and Feminism: Othering the Self, Engaging Theory 3. Men in Women’s Studies: A Case Study  4. Doing and Undoing Feminism: A Jurisdictional Journey  Part II: Movements  5. Reformer-Man and Feminist Man: The End of an Era in Kerala  6. A Feminist Journey: Population and Health in Post-Feminist Times  7. On Disloyalty  8. Men in Feminism: LGBT and Feminist Entanglements Over Masculinity  9. Pursuing Masculinity Studies in a Pro-feminist Perspective  Part III: Writings A Curious Friendship 10. Challenging Caste, Doing Gender: Paradoxes of Male Writings in North India  11. Feminism and the Question of Man: Negotiating the (Im)Possible  Afterword

O autorze

Romit Chowdhury is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. His research interests are in feminist studies, urban sociology, ethnography, and cultural studies. He has published on masculinity in the contexts of men’s rights movements, feminist methodology, urban sociability, male feminism, sexual violence, and care-giving. He held a visiting position at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, for three months in 2016.

Zaid Al Baset is Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. His research interests are in feminist studies, sexuality studies and sociology of religion. He has published on queer identities in India. He has co-edited a special issue of Economic and Political Weekly on the theme of men and feminism in India (2015). He was a DAAD PhD fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Göttingen (October and December 2016).