Gendering caste through a feminist lens /
Uma Chakravarti
- New Delhi: Sage, 2003.
- xvii, 203p. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index.
1 Understanding Caste; 2 The Axis of Gender Stratification in India; 3 Caste, Class and Gender: The Historical Roots of Brahmanical Patriarchy; 4 The Formation of Patriarchy and the Subordination of Women; 5 The Diversity of Patriarchal Practices; 6 Critiques of Caste and Gender Stratification; 7 Pre-Colonial Structures of Caste and Gender: An Eighteenth-Century Example; 8 Caste in the Colonial Period. 9 Caste and Gender in Contemporary India Epilogue; Afterword: Caste and Gender in the New Millennium