Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (eBook)

Situating India
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This book covers a range of issues and phenomena around gender-related violence in specific cultural and regional conditions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses historical and contemporary developments that trigger violence while highlighting the social conditions, practices, discourses, and cultural experiences of gender-related violence in India. Beginning with the issues of gender-based violence within the traditional context of Indian history and colonial encounters, it moves on to explore the connections between gender, minorities, marginalisation, sexuality, and violence, especially violence against Dalit women, disabled women, and transgender people. It traces and interprets similarities and differences as well as identifies social causes of potential conflicts. Further, it investigates the forms and mechanisms of political, economic, and institutional violence in the legitimation or de-legitimation of traditional gender roles. The chapters deal with sexual violence, violence within marriage and family, influence of patriarchal forces within factory-based gender violence, and global processes such as demand-driven surrogacy and the politics of literary and cinematic representations of gender-based violence. The book situates relevant debates about India and underlines the global context in the making of the gender bias that leads to violence both in the public and private domains.

An important contribution to feminist scholarship, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women's studies, history, sociology, and political science.

This book covers a range of issues and phenomena around gender-related violence in specific cultural and regional conditions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses historical and contemporary developments that trigger violence while highlighting the social conditions, practices, discourses, and cultural experiences of gender-related violence in India. Beginning with the issues of gender-based violence within the traditional context of Indian history and colonial encounters, it moves on to explore the connections between gender, minorities, marginalisation, sexuality, and violence, especially violence against Dalit women, disabled women, and transgender people. It traces and interprets similarities and differences as well as identifies social causes of potential conflicts. Further, it investigates the forms and mechanisms of political, economic, and institutional violence in the legitimation or de-legitimation of traditional gender roles. The chapters deal with sexual violence, violence within marriage and family, influence of patriarchal forces within factory-based gender violence, and global processes such as demand-driven surrogacy and the politics of literary and cinematic representations of gender-based violence. The book situates relevant debates about India and underlines the global context in the making of the gender bias that leads to violence both in the public and private domains.

An important contribution to feminist scholarship, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women's studies, history, sociology, and political science.

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VerlagTaylor & Francis Ebooks
EinbandPDF
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Seitenangabe280 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Abbildungen2 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Auflage19001 A. 1. Auflage
PlattformPDF
AutorAtwal, Jyoti (Hrsg.) / Flessenkämper, Iris (Hrsg.)

Über den Autor Jyoti (Hrsg.) Atwal

Jyoti Atwal is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and Adjunct Professor at Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Ireland (2017-2022). She specialises in gender history of India in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. She launched a master's level course on Irish women's history at JNU in 2017. She has recently co-edited a book with Professor Eunan O'Halpin titled, India, Ireland and Anti-Imperial Struggle: Remembering the Connaught Rangers Mutiny, 1920 (2021, funded by the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi). Her other publications include a co-edited volume on Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Situating India (2020). She has authored Real and Imagined Widows: Gender Relations in Colonial North India (2016). She has been a Visiting Fellow at various universities across the globe. She is on the editorial board of Women's History Review. Presently she is working on a biography of Margaret Cousins (1878-1954).Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick and an Irish Research Council Laureate Awardee 2017/32. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural and health history. Her current monograph is Ordinary Lives, Death and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2022).Sarah-Anne Buckley is Head of the Department of History at the National University of Ireland Galway and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Lifecourse and Society (ILAS). Her research centres on the history of childhood and youth, gender, and women in modern Ireland. She has published over twenty peer reviewed articles/chapters, five edited volumes and is the author of The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889-1956 (2013). Her 2020 co-authored book Old Ireland in Colour was the recipient of the "An Post Best Irish Published Book of the Year 2020". Her work has been cited in The New York Times and CNN. She is past President of the Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI), and current Co-PI of the Tuam Oral History Project.

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