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Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gyanendra PandeyPublish date:01/28/25Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031383ISBN-10:1478031387UPC:9781478031383Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:Asian StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCZF3C7TBJ
In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of men's comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous commitment to this critical part of their lives. The author draws on a wealth of archival materials--autobiographies, memoirs, fiction, and ethnographies--to situate Indian men firmly in the domestic world, underlining their dependence on the family and home. He investigates how men negotiate marriage, intimacy, and conjugality and focuses the effects of the humiliating and constant assertion of gender, caste, and class power in familial interactions. To uncover the nuances of these relationships, Pandey attends to the domestic commitments of upper-, middle-, and lower-class men across religion and caste. He considers issues of honor and shame, rights and responsibilities, citizenship and belonging through this exploration of how men across the subcontinent understand themselves in and beyond their domestic relationships. As much as it is a book about masculinity and conjugality, this is a book about Indian modernity, nationalism, and society as seen from the location of men in the home.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031383ISBN-10:1478031387UPC:9781478031383Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:Asian StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCZF3C7TBJ
Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University and author of A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States, Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India, and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, among other books.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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