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The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men's engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India.
List of contents
Acknowledgement Introduction
Part I: Institutions 1. Disrupting Coherence: Self Reflections of a Male Ethnographer
2. Masculinity Studies and Feminism: Othering the Self, Engaging Theory
3. Men in Women's Studies: A Case Study
4. Doing and Undoing Feminism: A Jurisdictional Journey
Part II: Movements 5. Reformer-Man and Feminist Man: The End of an Era in Kerala
6. A Feminist Journey: Population and Health in Post-Feminist Times
7. On Disloyalty
8. Men in Feminism: LGBT and Feminist Entanglements Over Masculinity
9. Pursuing Masculinity Studies in a Pro-feminist Perspective
Part III: Writings A Curious Friendship
10. Challenging Caste, Doing Gender: Paradoxes of Male Writings in North India
11. Feminism and the Question of Man: Negotiating the (Im)Possible Afterword
About the author
Romit Chowdhury is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. His research interests are in feminist studies, urban sociology, ethnography, and cultural studies. He has published on masculinity in the contexts of men's rights movements, feminist methodology, urban sociability, male feminism, sexual violence, and care-giving. He held a visiting position at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, for three months in 2016.
Zaid Al Baset is Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. His research interests are in feminist studies, sexuality studies and sociology of religion. He has published on queer identities in India. He has co-edited a special issue of
Economic and Political Weekly on the theme of men and feminism in India (2015). He was a DAAD PhD fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Göttingen (October and December 2016).
Summary
The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men’s engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India.
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"Men and Feminism in India represents a timely and necessary intellectual intervention. These essays – written from spaces of deep interdisciplinarity – collectively move the study of gender in India in radically new and refreshing directions." - Davesh Soneji,University of Pennsylvania"This book, gathering established and fresh voices into careful discussion of Indian menfolk’s engagements with feminist (and queer) spaces, will quickly become an essential reference-point." - Caroline Osella,School of Oriental and African Studies, London
