Dalit Women's Education in Modern India

Double Discrimination
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-49300-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this book, Shailaja Paik focuses on the struggle of Dalit women in one arena - the realm of formal education – and examines a range of interconnected social, cultural and political questions. What did education mean to women? How did changes in women’s education affect their views of themselves and their domestic work, public employment, marriage, sexuality, and childbearing and rearing? What does the dissonance between the rhetoric and practice of secular education tell us about the deeper historical entanglement with modernity as experienced by Dalit communities?

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, 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. The book combines archival research with historical fieldwork, and centres on themes including slum life, urban middle classes, social and sexual labour, and family, marriage and children to provide a penetrating portrait of the actions and lives of Dalit women.

Elegantly conceived and convincingly argued, Dalit Women's Education in Modern India will be invaluable to students of History, Caste Politics, Women and Gender Studies, Education Studies, Urban Studies and Asian studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paik, Shailaja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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