インドにおけるカースト、ジェンダーと教育 Dalit Women's Education in Modern India : Double Discrimination (Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series)

Paik, Shailaja

Routledge（2014/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 370 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415493000
• DDC分類 379.260869420954

Full Description

Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this book, Shailaja Paik focuses on the struggle of Dalit women in one arena - the realm of formal education - and examines a range of interconnected social, cultural and political questions. What did education mean to women? How did changes in women's education affect their views of themselves and their domestic work, public employment, marriage, sexuality, and childbearing and rearing? What does the dissonance between the rhetoric and practice of secular education tell us about the deeper historical entanglement with modernity as experienced by Dalit communities?

Dalit Women's Education in Modern India is a social and cultural history that challenges the triumphant narrative of modern secular education to analyse the constellation of social, economic, political and historical circumstances that both opened and closed opportunities to many Dalits. By focusing on marginalised Dalit women in modern Maharashtra, who have rarely been at the centre of systematic historical enquiry, Paik breathes life into their ideas, expectations, potentials, fears and frustrations. Addressing two major blind spots in the historiography of India and of the women's movement, she historicises Dalit women's experiences and constructs them as historical agents. The book combines archival research with historical fieldwork, and centres on themes including slum life, urban middle classes, social and sexual labour, and family, marriage and children to provide a penetrating portrait of the actions and lives of Dalit women.

Elegantly conceived and convincingly argued, Dalit Women's Education in Modern India will be invaluable to students of History, Caste Politics, Women and Gender Studies, Education Studies, Urban Studies and Asian studies.

Contents

Introduction: Education for the Oppressed

PART I Education

1. The Right to Education

2. 'Educate, Organise, and Agitate': Non-Brahman and Dalit Technologies of Education

3. Education, Reform of Women, and Exclusion of Dalit Women

4. Modern Dalit Women as Agents

Part II The Paradox of Education

5. Education and Life in the Urban Slum

6. Modern Middle-Class Dalits: Seeking Education and Escaping the Slum

7. Dalit Women in Employment

8. Education, Marriage, Children, and Family Life

Conclusion