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This book is a study of the transformations in Punjab created by biotechnological revolutions, economic restructuring, persistent migrations, and political upheaval in the late 20th century. The sacred centre at Amritsar, the transnational settlement of Southall and a Doaba village form the terrain for this — three sites that can seen as metonymic spaces of identity that transcend geographic boundaries, and form the structure of this book.Relations between ...
What it means to be a man-in word, flesh, deed and affect-in the various arenas of social life in South Asian societies is the thread that runs through the essays in this volume, the first of its kind on masculinity. These essays deal with different planes of experience, and various modes of expression: popular films, national history, ethnography and literature are examined within a range of methdological and theoretical orientations. Regional differences as ...
There is a growing concern among gender practitioners, activists and researchers to address the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality and in empowering women. How can we make gendered partnerships possible? Do ordinary men in contemporary South Asia reflect on gender? What do they make of the public debates and outcries against issues like gender violence, female foeticide and the trafficking of women and children? The essays in this volume ...