Re-Imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138294240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 348 str.

Gita Chadha; M. T. Joseph

Opis

This book maps the intersections between sociology and feminism in the Indian context. It retrieves the lives and work of women pioneers of and in sociology, asking crucial questions of their feminisms and their sociologies. The chapters address the experiential realities of women in the field, pedagogical issues, methodological frameworks, mentoring processes, and artistic engagements with academic work. The volume’s strength lies in bringing together Indian scholars from diverse social backgrounds and regions reflecting on the specificity of the Indian social sciences. The essays cover a range of key areas, including sexuality, law, environment, science and medicine.

 

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List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Mapping and marking feminist sociologies in India Part I Reading and Writing Early Women in Sociology 1. Early women sociologists in India 2. Reclaiming Neera Desai’s sociological legacy: Women’s movements, struggles and organizations 3. The sociology of C. Parvathamma: Going beyond stereotypes 4. Ratna Naidu: An intellectual biography Part II Pedagogies and Mentoring: Living Processes 5. Sociology, feminism and mentoring: Contested sites of knowledge production and consumption 6. Transforming the sociology classroom: Implementing a critical feminist pedagogy 7. Finding feminism(s): Through life in general and academics in particular Part III Substantive Transformations: Erasures, Intersections, Insertions 8. Interrogating (non) consent in sexual intimacies and infringements: Mapping the socio-legal landscape in India 9. Desire, Violence and ‘Pink Money’: Life of Kothis in a Small City of Western India 10. Organizing rule through an imagiary of the ‘masculine’: A case of the ‘martial’ Marathas 11. Interrogating the sociology of environment in western India: A gendered understanding 12. Gender, mental illness and the everyday: Understanding the interface of psychiatry with the lives of women diagnosed as mentally ill 13. Narratives in feminist sociology of science: Contextualizing the experience(s) of women scientists in India. Index