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Gender continues to be a key site of social inequality across the globe. In South Asia, the cultural practices and ideologies underpinning gender relations and masculinities are vital for understanding the wider social fabric. Yet masculinities, and their discontents - shifting and varied - remain an understudied and often misrepresented facet of gender relations.
By carefully attending to historical and contemporary gender structures this book provides a critical and probing exploration of masculinities as embedded in religious or scriptural doctrines, colonialism, nationalism, globalization, and economic struggles.
Based on cross-disciplinary analyses, the book offers rich insights into the construction of gender relations, and masculinity in particular, as these have taken shape through the political and cultural processes framing Indian nationalism; colonialism and resistance; development and migration; and modernity and religion.
The book will appeal to scholars and students of gender studies, history, anthropology, sociology, politics and popular culture.ISBN - 9788189643362
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Pages : 203
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