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Discourses of gender and caste in rural South India: Analysis of ideology of impurity.

By: Kapadia, Karin.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Bergen : Chr. Michelsen Institute, 1991Subject(s): Women -- Zambia -- Women -- Zambia | Women -- Women's rights -- Females. -- Women -- Women's rights -- Females. -- Women -- Women's rights -- FemalesSummary: This paper focuses on ideology gender and caste in Tamilnadu, South India. Further, the paper concludes that by investigating the multiple discourses of gender and caste in varying caste-contexts, it can be shown that the dominant caste discourse concerning ritual purity has little salience in lower caste culture.
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This paper focuses on ideology gender and caste in Tamilnadu, South India. Further, the paper concludes that by investigating the multiple discourses of gender and caste in varying caste-contexts, it can be shown that the dominant caste discourse concerning ritual purity has little salience in lower caste culture.

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