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Gender and Masculinities: Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka Hardcover - 2014

Name: Gender and Masculinities: Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka (Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series) [Hardcover]
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Author: Doron, Assa And Broom, Alex
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Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make up 'masculinities' remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often misrepresented facet of gender relations and cultural dynamics. Gender and Masculinities offers a collection of chapters that seek to unravel the complex ideas, practices and concepts revolving around gender structures and masculinities in India and Sri Lanka.

The contributions to this volume draw on a range of disciplines, including history, comparative literatures, religion, anthropology, and development studies to illuminate the key issues that have shaped our understanding of gender relations and masculinities over time and across a range of geographical areas. By carefully attending to historical and contemporary gender ideologies and practices in South Asia, this book provides a critical exploration of masculinities in their plurality, as shifting, culturally located and embedded in religious ideologies, power relations, the politics of nationalism, globalisation and economic struggles. The volume will attract scholars interested in history, anthropology, sociology, nationalism, colonialism, religion and kinship, and popular culture.

This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

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Title Gender and Masculinities: Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka
Author Assa Doron (Editor); Alex Broom (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 144
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Date 2014-03
Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780415725545 / 0415725542
Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
Dimensions 9.7 x 6.9 x 0.6 in (24.64 x 17.53 x 1.52 cm)

About the author

Assa Doron is a Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. He is author of Life on the Ganga: Boatmen and the Ritual economy of Banaras (Cambridge University Press/Foundation, 2013); and co-author (with Robin Jeffrey) of The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life (Harvard/Hurst, 2013).

Alex Broom is Associate Professor of Sociology and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. He specialises in the sociology of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) and the sociology of cancer and end-of-life care. Recent publications include: Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Cancer Care (Routledge, 2007), Therapeutic Pluralism (Routledge, 2008), Men's Health: Body, Identity and Social Context (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia (Routledge, 2011).