Gender, Power and Identity (Record no. 26191)
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| fixed length control field | 02151 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789352876570 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.310954558 |
| Item number | CHO-G |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Chowdhry, Prem |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Gender, Power and Identity |
| Sub Title | : Essays on Masculinities in Rural North India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Orient BlackSwan |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 288p |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Include Bibliography and Index<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The book tells about gender studies it has almost become synonymous with women’s studies, men and masculinities are subsumed under patriarchies and constructed as monolithic across space, time, cultures and social groups. Though men’s studies have proliferated in Western academia, in India the research in this direction is lacking. Neither is there a coherent theory of masculinities, nor individual studies of different regions. This book fills this conceptual gap by emphasising the need to engage with the complexity of masculinities; to understand it not only as an ideological construct but also a set of practices that are both diverse and fluid. It throws much-needed light on how, despite various contradictions and mutual antagonisms, different masculinities are able to act in unison on certain crucial matters that have severe societal repercussions. The field area of this study is rural north India, with special reference to Haryana, which has been the author’s focus of research for three decades. She locates the study of masculinities in different historical junctures in the political economy of Haryana, stretching from the colonial period to the era of globalisation, in order to understand how notions of masculinity are defined and redefined. In the context of caste and class relations, patriarchy and other social divisions, the author investigate the contribution of such masculinities to what we are witnessing today: greater aggression and violence, worsening gender equations, greater exploitation of other subordinate categories, consolidation of repressive social forces and the strengthening of casteism and communalism. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Social conditions |
| Form subdivision | Rural men |
| -- | Patriarchy |
| -- | Masculinity |
| Geographic subdivision | Haryana |
| -- | India |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 06/07/2020 | OP | 580.35 | 2020-06-11 | 305.310954558 CHO-G | 50951 | 795.00 | 11/06/2020 | Books |