Thinking gender, doing gender: feminist scholarship and practice today
- Shimla Orient BlackSwan 2016
- xxxi, 330 p.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Section I: Feminist Pedagogies
1.Education as Truttiya Ratna: Phule, Ambedkar and Pedagogical Practice 2. Women, Men and Others in the Class and in the Past: The Challenges of Mainstreaming Gender in History 3. Reading Gender in School Textbooks: The Tussle Between Tradition and Modernity 4. Chatra Prabhodhan: Tacking Modern Education to Tradition 5. Feminist Activism in the Pedagogy and Practice of Science: An Interactionist Approach
Section II: History and Memory
6. Feminist Epistemology and Oral History as Method 7. The ‘Man-Made’ Famine and Women’s Responses to Hunger: The Pivotal Dynamics of Food in the Tebhaga Movement 8. Memory as Ritual, Memory as Renewal: Some Thoughts on Feminist History-writing
Section III: Along the Bylanes: Reading Culture, Doing Culture
9. Devadasi and/or ‘Prostitute’: Analysing ‘Jogtin Prostitute’ in Post-colonial Rural Maharashtra 10. ‘Mitro Marjani’: Recasting Women and Subversion 11. Gender and Commodity Aesthetics in Tamilnadu 1950–70 12. Reimagining Nation: Redefining Region and Gender and Identity in the Cinema of the 1950s 13. Women in Theatre: Journeys From ‘Respectability’ to Agency 14. Staging Feminist Theatre 15. Building Blocks: Casting a Woman’s Eye on the Built Environment
In the 1980s, gender was acknowledged as a useful and necessary category of analysis. The first generation of feminist scholars defined the new field and provided a rich corpus of works; later generations of scholars and activists then expanded it through their writings on culture, film and media, and sexuality.
Thinking Gender, Doing Gender focuses on these issues, as well as on pedagogy and classroom practice, theoretical obstacles created by disciplinary constraints, and practices in the performing arts from a gender perspective. This volume focuses more on doing gender rather thinking gender: in classrooms, in the making of curricula, in the writing and recall of history, in reading literature and cinema, and in the practice of culture in theater and urban spaces.