Shailaja Paik

Dalit Women's Education in Modern India

Double Discrimination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dalit Women's Education in Modern India is a social and cultural history that challenges the triumphant narrative of modern secular education to analyse the constellation of social, economic, political and historical circumstances that both opened and closed opportunities to many Dalits. By focusing on marginalised Dalit women in modern Maharashtra, who have rarely been at the centre of systematic historical enquiry, Shailaja Paik breathes life into their ideas, expectations, potentials, fears and frustrations. Addressing two major blind spots in the historiography of India and of the women's movement, she historicises Dalit women's experiences and constructs them as historical agents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780815384144
• ISBN-10: 0815384149
• Artikelnr.: 52715358

Autorenporträt

Shailaja Paik is Assistant Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Affiliate Faculty at the University of Cincinnati, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Education for the Oppressed
PART I Education
1. The Right to Education
2. 'Educate, Organise, and Agitate': Non-Brahman and Dalit Technologies of
Education
3. Education, Reform of Women, and Exclusion of Dalit Women
4. Modern Dalit Women as Agents
Part II The Paradox of Education
5. Education and Life in the Urban Slum
6. Modern Middle-Class Dalits: Seeking Education and Escaping the Slum
7. Dalit Women in Employment
8. Education, Marriage, Children, and Family Life
Conclusion