Moving in from the margins: gender as the centre of cultural contestation of power relations in south India

Kalpana Ram

doi:10.4324/9781003116165-1

Moving in from the margins: gender as the centre of cultural contestation of power relations in south India

Kalpana Ram^*

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Department of Anthropology

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Abstract

Gender is not constituted outside of other power relations such as class, ethnicity and caste (in India). Nor is it simply a side-effect of these other relations. Gender, and in particular, the female body, can be regarded as a terrain in which other relations are 'transcoded'. As a result, the study of gender is central to the study of any other relationship of power and sociality, and needs to be 'moved in from the margins' as an 'add-on' to established discourses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intersexions
Subtitle of host publication	gender/class/culture/ethnicity
Editors	Gill Bottomley, Marie de Lepervanche, Jeannie Martin
Place of Publication	Sydney
Publisher	Allen & Unwin
Chapter	1
Pages	1-13
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000249996, 9781003116165, 004442325X
ISBN (Print)	9780044423256
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003116165-1
Publication status	Published - 1991

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Book first published 1991 by Allen & Unwin; reissued 2020 by Routledge.

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gender and power

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