Pineapples and oranges, brahmins and shudras: periyar feminists and narratives of gender and regionality in south India.

POWER is housed in a Polytechnic school for girls, in the semirural outskirts of Tanjore, the “rice belt” district of south India. The Polytechnic is redolent with Periyar's ideology and rhetoric. Slogans such as “Chastity symbolizes slavery of women and makes her anybody's chattel,” for example, ar...

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Publicado en:Anthropologica Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 265 - 282
Autor principal: George, Glynis R.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) 2003
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