Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)

by KarinKapadia (Author)

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  1998

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  An examination of two subordinated groups in a village in Tamilnadu, south India - untouchables and women. Their lives and work provide an analytical focus that demonstrates the ways in which three axes of identity - gender, caste and class - are constructed in South India.