Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender

Bibliographic Data

ID4751998
AuthorsSusie Tharu (English and Foreign Languages University), Tejaswini Niranjana (0000-0001-5052-3000, University of Hyderabad)
Year1994
Volume22
Issue3/4
Pages93
Publication date1994-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0970-0293
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3517624
OpenAlexW2597433112
LanguageEN
Citations received58

Suddenly 'women' are everywhere. Development experts name 'gender bias as the cause of poverty in the third world'; population planners declare their commitment to the empowerment of Indian women; economists speak of the feminisation of the Indian labour force. Over 1991-92, for instance, upper-caste women thronged the streets in the anti-Mandal protests; the BJP identified women and dalits as the principal targets of their next election campaign; women shot into prominence as leaders in the Ramjanmabhoomi movement. The People's War Group of the CPI-ML found themselves drawn increasingly into popular women's campaigns against sexual and domestic violence, dowry and the sale of arrack. Film after film features the new woman as active, critical, angry-she also figures prominently in Doordarshan programmes. In overwhelming numbers, women have joined the literacy campaigns in Pondicherry and parts of Andhra Pradesh. And now we have the anti-arrack movement that threatens to destabilise the entire economy of the state

Epistemology · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Philosophy

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