Imagining Women's Social Space in Early Modern Keralam
Published By: CDS on eSS | Published Date: April, 07 , 2002The paper argues that the formation of modern gender identities
in late 19th and early 20th Century Keralam was deeply implicated in
the project of shaping governable subjects who were, at the one and
same time, ‘free’ and already inserted into modern institutions. Because
gender appeared both ‘natural’ and ‘social’, both ‘individualised’ and
‘general’, it appeared to be a superior form of social order compared to
the established jati-based ordering. [Working Paper No. 329]
Author(s): J. Devika | Posted on: Oct 07, 2010 | Views(1002) | Download (843)