Fr. 57.50

Privileged Minorities - Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India

English · Paperback / Softback

Shipping usually within 3 to 5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)

Description

Read more










Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position. Focusing on Syrian Christian women, Sonja Thomas explores how this community illuminates larger questions of multiple oppressions, privilege and subordination, racialization, and religion and secularism in India.

In Privileged Minorities, Thomas examines a wide range of sources, including oral histories, ethnographic interviews, and legislative assembly debates, to interrogate the relationships between religious rights and women's rights in Kerala. Using an intersectional approach, and US women of color feminist theory, she demonstrates the ways that race, caste, gender, religion, and politics are inextricably intertwined, with power and privilege working in complex and nuanced ways. By attending to the ways in which inequalities within groups shape very different experiences of religious and political movements in feminist and rights-based activism, Thomas lays the groundwork for imagining new feminist solidarities across religions, castes, races, and classes.


About the author










Sonja Thomas is assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College.


Product details

Authors Sonja Thomas
Assisted by Padma Kaimal (Editor), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Editor), Anand A Yang (Editor)
Publisher University Of Washington Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.10.2018
 
EAN 9780295743844
ISBN 978-0-295-74384-4
No. of pages 224
Series Global South Asia
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.