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Rigorous feminist critique of sociological theories and paradigms has, in recent years, raised new questions, broadened the frontiers of sociological knowledge and established gender as a conceptual category. Simultaneously, new developments within feminist scholarship have given rise to fresh explorations which have strengthened and expanded the boundaries of feminist knowledge Exploring these twin developments, this invaluable reader maps the contributions made ...
In the 1990s, Dalit scholars and activists posed sharp challenges to the ways in which academic canons were made and curricular protocols established. This book engages with these challenges, turning its attention specifically to Dalit women and looking at curricular and pedagogical practices that deny their agency. The author makes a case for the use of what she terms Dalit testimonios-life narratives of struggle in which the teller, in this case the ...