Full Description
The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men's engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India. The chapters in this collection respond to two broad thematic concerns: theoretical implications of men producing feminist knowledge and the history of men's participation in feminist endeavours. The volume also explores the undocumented contributions of men to three domains of feminist activity: institutionalization of feminism in the academy, social movements aimed at gender justice, and male writings on gender and sexuality.
Delving into an important yet overlooked aspect of the social sciences, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, masculinity studies, modern Indian history, sociology, and social anthropology.
Contents
Acknowledgement Introduction Part I: Institutions 1. Disrupting Coherence: Self Reflections of a Male Ethnographer 2. Masculinity Studies and Feminism: Othering the Self, Engaging Theory 3. Men in Women's Studies: A Case Study 4. Doing and Undoing Feminism: A Jurisdictional Journey Part II: Movements 5. Reformer-Man and Feminist Man: The End of an Era in Kerala 6. A Feminist Journey: Population and Health in Post-Feminist Times 7. On Disloyalty 8. Men in Feminism: LGBT and Feminist Entanglements Over Masculinity 9. Pursuing Masculinity Studies in a Pro-feminist Perspective Part III: Writings A Curious Friendship 10. Challenging Caste, Doing Gender: Paradoxes of Male Writings in North India 11. Feminism and the Question of Man: Negotiating the (Im)Possible Afterword
