Sociology of Gender

by Rege, Sharmila

• ISBN13: 9780761997054
• ISBN10: 0761997059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-31
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

Summary

These essays belong to different intellectual genres: while some document gender gaps and inequality, others delineate the ways in which gender structures are structured by the institutions of family, kinship, caste, labour, sexuality and the state. In the last two decades or more, much of feminist scholarship has been directed towards underlining the social construction of gender. This book should act as a catalyst for further discussions on engendering the discipline and for developing a sociological feminism. It provides an intensive overview of gender sociologists in India.

Author Biography

Sharmila Rege teaches at the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre, University of Pune

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

The Feminist Challenge to Sociology: Disenchanting Sociology or 'For Sociology'?

Conceptual Issues in Feminism, Anthropology and Sociology

Feminist Social Theories

Themes and Variations

Problems with Patriarchy

Conceptual Issues in Anthropology and Feminism

Gender and Social Institutions

Family, Marriage and Kinship

Single-and Dual-Earner Couples

Economic Status and Marital Power

Who Gains from Matriliny?

Men, Women and Change on a Lakshadweep Island

Gender and the Khasi Family Structure

The Meghalaya Succession to Self-Acquainted Property Act, 1984

'Feminization of the Egyptian Family'

Impact of Egyptian Male Migration on Urban Families

Work

Women and Development

A Profile of Active Agricultural Producers

Female Participation in Farm Work in Central Kerala

Joiners and Non-Joiners

A City Suburb and Its Women's Club

Education

Female Sexuality and Education of Hindu Girls in India

Unequal Schooling and Social Inequality in India

State

Gender in the Making of the Indian Nation-State

Bodies of Evidence, Bodies of Rule

The Ilbert Bill, Revivalism, and Age of Consent in Colonial India

Dalit Struggle, Nude Worship, and the 'Chandragutti Incident'

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