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Herrick, Rebekah. "The Gender Gaps in Identity and Political Attitudes among American Indians." Politics & Gender 14, no. 2 (January 2, 2018): 186–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x17000344.
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While there is much research examining gender gaps in political attitudes, there is less examining how gender gaps differ within social groups. This article helps fill that void by examining gender gaps among American Indians. Using two surveys, the initial findings suggest that among American Indians, women have a stronger American Indian identity, are more likely to support women's/compassion issues, and are more likely to be Democrats. It further finds that the gender gap in party is more likely the result of the gender gap in compassion issues than in American Indian identity. Additional analysis finds that among American Indians who prioritize their American Indian identity, the partisan gender gap is reversed, with men being significantly more likely to be Democrats. Although this study finds some similarities between the gaps among American Indians and whites, it also finds some unique gaps among American Indians. This suggests the need to look at the intersectionality of gender and social groups to fully understand the gender gaps.
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Ramanathan, Vijayasarathi. "Values, Behaviour and Identity: Acculturation of Indian Immigrant Men in Australia." Journal of International Migration and Integration 16, no. 3 (June 24, 2014): 625–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-014-0364-2.
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Ekstrand, Maria L., Shruta Rawat, Pallav Patankar, Elsa Heylen, Asha Banu, B. R. Simon Rosser, and J. Michael Wilkerson. "Sexual identity and behavior in an online sample of Indian men who have sex with men." AIDS Care 29, no. 7 (December 27, 2016): 905–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2016.1271103.
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Nundagopaul Pillay, Vanishree, Jenika Gobind, and Zanele Ndaba. "How Identity Informs the Bicultural Context of South African Indian Women Engineers." International Conference on Gender Research 5, no. 1 (April 13, 2022): pp179–185. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/icgr.5.1.99.
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This qualitative study articulated the voices of 25 South African Indian women engineers through the exploration of their identities in a bicultural context. Data extracted from their life stories provided elucidation of participants’ bicultural identity navigation. This applied firstly in a personal context, historically known for its culturally driven patriarchal undertones. Secondly, their professional context, in a career dominated by men and deeply rooted in gender partiality against women engineers. Findings of this research indicated the transformed application of Indian cultural norms evidenced by (a) growing family support of a career that would – under Indian culture – be deemed unsuitable for an Indian female, and (b) an unexpected finding: the rise of a paternal motivator that contributed to positive socialisation informing autonomous career decision-making by participants. The continued dominance of men in the profession presented as a strong negative indicator adversely impacting fluid navigation. This article contributed to the literature on identity and biculturalism by considering an insufficiently studied sample of women. The findings and recommendations of this article provided previously untapped information about the identity challenges faced by bicultural female engineers in a male-dominated profession.
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Chhavi, Rajiv Bhushan, and Priyanka Tripathi. "Mahesh Dattani’s Do the Needful: A Tussle Between Innate Sexuality and Imposed Identity." Gender Studies 21, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 45–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/genst-2023-0004.
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Abstract Although the issues related to sexuality are of prime importance in the contemporary world, in the Indian society they are closeted and ignored even today. Several social injunctions are conceptualized against men with alternative sexualities. To avoid social stigma, men refrain from coming out of the closet and accepting their natural sexual identity and orientation. However, there are certain playwrights who have addressed this otherwise taboo subject of sexuality on the Indian Stage. Mahesh Dattani is one amongst them. His plays firmly assert that gender and sexuality are concepts that are not confined to one’s biological orientation, but rather go beyond it. They are conditioned by socio-cultural norms and hegemonic practices. He elucidates how the socio-cultural determinants of gender and sexuality contradict one’s own individual instincts, sexual preferences and lived experiences. With reference to his famous play Do the Needful, this paper gives a brief account of the condition of Indian theatre pre- and post-colonization and projects the camouflaging techniques adopted by the discursive identities of gay people, for example, in order to conspicuously feature as straight and normal. It outlines the social constructions associated with gays in India and how these formations compel Indian men to internalize and succumb to the conventional norms of heterosexuality as the only acceptable norms.
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Nagarjuna, P., and Dr K. Rekha. "Women Identity: The Study of Characterization of Women in the select works of Manohar Malgonkar." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 1 (2024): 293–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.91.39.
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The portrayal of women in Indian English novels is a complicated and changing component of literature that has changed with time. It is critical to remember that Indian English literature is immensely diverse and that women are not portrayed uniformly throughout. The portrayal of women in Indian English literature does share certain common themes. The portrayal of women frequently reflects India’s immense cultural diversity. The depiction of female characters varies depending on the cultures, groups and customs present. Traditional roles for women in the novels of Manohar Malgonkar include wives; mothers and daughters frequently take on the role of carers and are required to respect traditional family and social norms. Women characters were neglected and men played an important role in his novels. The present study will concentrate on comprehensive portrayal of man-woman relationship in his selected novels. It also depicts the characterization of women in his selected novels.
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Carrim, Nasima M. H. "‘New’ Men and ‘New’ Women: Cultural Identity Work of Husbands and Wives Related to Housework and Childcare." Asian Social Science 13, no. 11 (October 30, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v13n11p1.
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Existing research indicates that the number of dual-career couples is increasing and that, by implication, domestic responsibility should be equally shared between husbands and wives. However, in many societies, women’s paid employment has not resulted in men assuming responsibility for domestic duties and childcare. This article examines the extent to which husbands and wives engage in cultural identity work related to household chores and childcare. A qualitative interpretivist approach was followed and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 Indian couples occupying different positions across various management levels in diverse South African organisations. The results of the study indicate that these husbands and wives, who come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, engage differently in cultural identity work. Additionally, today’s younger wives are more assertive and expect their husbands to be involved to a greater extent in the home and with childcare, resulting in husbands engaging in more identity work. The Indian society in South Africa is undergoing tremendous changes regarding adherence to culture, resulting in varying levels of cultural identity work taking place within dual-earner relationships.
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Alagesh . J, Dr. J. Mary Stella. "Loss Of Identity And Agony Of Alienation: An Evaluationof Rohinton Mistry’s Such A Long Journey." Tuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology 44, no. 3 (November 27, 2023): 4356–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.52783/tjjpt.v44.i3.2377.
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The themes of Mistry’s novels centre on empowering patterns in a society that silences individual voices. Superstitions and mental or physical limits are also depicted in his fiction. He is more concerned in exposing the issues facing the untouchables, the underprivileged members of society, and their oppressed status. Indian-diasporic author Rohinton Mistry explores themes of immigration and self-identity crises in his works. The present paper addresses alienation as a worldwide issue with regard to English-language writing by Indian authors. The term primarily refers to English-language works written by writers who are Indian by birth, ancestry, or nationality and which evoke the essence of Indian culture, ethos, homeland, and geography. These works are populated by men who identify as Indian or of Indian descent and who reside in India or any other country in the world. Specifically, Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey is the subject of this paper.
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Rahayu, Mundi. "The New Image of Indian Girl in Sherman Alexie’s The Search Engine." Journal of Language and Literature 22, no. 2 (September 26, 2022): 422–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v22i2.4323.
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The current paper examines the Native American people's identity, especially the main female character's cultural identity in the short story entitled The Search Engine. Sherman Alexie, the author of the story, is a Native American writer who harnesses the Indian identity as one of the main topics. The identity presented in the main character, Corliss, shows the challenges of the stereotypes of Native American girls. For that reason, the paper aims at exploring the new Indian woman’s cultural identity represented in the main character, Corliss, in the short story The Search Engine. The study applies feminist literary criticism that enables the writers to deeply explore the issue of woman's identity among the American native people. The main character, Corliss, shows the new female image identity, in which she can challenge traditional stereotypes of Native American women. Corliss is represented as a highly literate woman, with a lot of reading on English literary works, and has concern on her Indian-ness, which is often incommensurable to her big family’s views. The main character shows the new female image of an Indian girl evidenced in her excellent literacy and attitude toward Indian and White people. She has new consciousness in seeing the Indian men and women and their relation to White people.
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KP, Krishnaveni. "The Indian Women Writers and their Contributions to Indian Literature." American Research Journal of English and Literature 7, no. 1 (May 28, 2021): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.21694/2378-9026.21007.
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The Indian women writers are the one who mainly talks about the male ego and female desire for freedom. Through their writings women writer tries to oppose the male dominance over them. Indian women writers depict the injustices, the anguish and the despair they received in a male dominated society. Many of the writings can be considered as a mutiny against the restraints which the society thrust upon women. In this man-centered world they are trying to bring out the feminine identity through their works. Indian women writers never attempted to adopt any masculine roles to achieve themselves as equal as men, but through their writings they came across all the barrier of class, gender and space boundaries. They try to project masculinity and femininity as equal categories. Though through their works the Indian women writers tries to project women’s responses to gender questions. However, they tried to depict the fact that writings of women need not be differentiated by language or location.
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Carrim, Nasima M. H. "The In-Betweeners: Racio-ethnic and Masculine Identity Work of Indian Male Managers in the South African Private Sector." Journal of Men’s Studies 27, no. 1 (May 30, 2018): 3–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1060826518778239.
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This article examines the extent to which minority Indian male managers engage in identity work in their efforts to gain career ascendancy in the private sector in South Africa. Indian male managers occupying diverse management posts at middle management and senior management levels in various sectors were interviewed. Results indicate that Indian men worked and reworked their managerial and cultural identities to form coherent identities which they were comfortable enacting in corporate South Africa. Race hierarchy in some workplaces placed Indian males at a disadvantage related to promotional opportunities. There is no simple solution to the problem as race hierarchy still dominates corporate South Africa, and Western norms still prevail.
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Sandhu, Namrata, and Dilpreet Singh. "Gender Contamination in Indian Automobile Advertisements." Paradigm 21, no. 2 (December 2017): 139–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971890717736212.
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Datsun Go surely and boldly disturbed the prevailing gender order in automobile advertisements by airing a series of ‘women only’ automobile advertisements on Indian television channels. This study uncovers the phenomenological response of men to this supposed gender contamination of a male-gendered product. The study captures the change in participants’ construction of gender identity meanings of the car and its purchase probability in response to exposure to differently gendered advertisements of the car. Results indicate the significant impact of gender signals in advertisements on the viewers’ perception of the gender identity meanings of the car. The study also provides evidence of male acceptance of gender bending in automobiles. Managerial implications and theoretical contributions are discussed.
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Grandbois, G. H., and David Schadt. "Indian Identification and Alienation in an Urban Community." Psychological Reports 74, no. 1 (February 1994): 211–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1994.74.1.211.
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Studies of alienation among Native Americans have been few. Reliance on sociological and psychological themes is commonplace in explaining Native Americans' alienation. This project was designed to explore the relationship between alienation and Native Americans' identification (26 men, 27 women) in an urban setting. Analysis generated correlations for scores on alienation with age, years of schooling, years of living in the city, percentage of Indian blood, self-rating of Indian identity, and Indian pride which were affected by gender.
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Ghosh, Subho. "Switching Heads and Cultures: Transformation of an Indian Myth into the Quest of Identity Crisis in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana." Praxis International Journal of Social Science and Literature 6, no. 8 (August 25, 2023): 89–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.51879/pijssl/060810.
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Myths and legends have an enduring significance for the fundamental human obsessions. Indian drama is flavoured with several elements in which mythology plays an important role. One of the most renowned playwrights of contemporary India, Girish Karnad who has made use of the theatre to explore the culture of Indian past, re-created Hayavadana, a commentary on the problems of human being’s search for completeness and perfection, with his own imaginative calibre deriving it from Kathasaritsagar, an 11th century compendium of Indian legends and drawing the picturesque of Thomas Mann’s story of The Transposed Heads in a modern approach. It revolves around the triangular relation between Padmini, Devdatta and Kapila ending in Padmini’s frustrated search to get the best of both men in one body highlighting the confusion of human identities and the ambiguous nature of human personality. This present paper focuses on how Girish Karnad re-interprets the mythology in his creation rummaging a conflict between modernity and indigenous tradition against the backdrop of mythical history to enunciate the acute crisis of identity, self-discovery and imperfection or and wholeness to reach to the zenith of perfection that is next to impossible reflecting the strength of psychology over the physical one where the human beings strive to obtain perfection in all the aspects throughout their life but they forget the fact that perfection is something that is unachievable. It is concluded that although the ending of the play is not within the orthodoxy of Indian epic texts and Hindu philosophy, it can be seen in the cultural context of an Indian woman of today who seeks to fulfil her needs and aspirations.
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Ajith, Anakha. "In the Pursuit of an Identity: Analysing the Case of Male Health Care Providers." Masculinities & Social Change 9, no. 3 (October 21, 2020): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/mcs.2020.5461.
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Being a female-concentrated job, nursing has forgotten the place of men within the profession despite their contribution since time immemorial. The heightened efforts of Florence Nightingale to transform nursing into a respectable female occupation denied men the opportunity to enter this domain. Despite their growing representation, they are still a minority in nursing in countries across the globe. When the occupational roles do not conform to the gender-appropriate roles prescribed by the society, the ‘male’ nurses’ prestige and self-esteem are at risk since others recognize them neither as true nurses nor as real men. Drawing majorly from secondary sources and data gathered from an anthropological study of in-home care providers in the South Indian state of Kerala, this paper on the predicament of men in nursing throws light on the ‘spoiled identity’ they carry; the work stress, gender stereotyping, stigma and discrimination they encounter by always being suspected and their very identity and sexual orientation questioned. A note on the strategies employed by them to overcome the problems is also within the purview of this paper.
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Matamonasa-Bennett, Arieahn. "“The Poison That Ruined the Nation”: Native American Men—Alcohol, Identity, and Traditional Healing." American Journal of Men's Health 11, no. 4 (March 26, 2015): 1142–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988315576937.
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Alcoholism and destructive drinking patterns are serious social problems in many Native American reservation and urban communities. This qualitative study of men from a single Great Lakes reservation community examined the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of their alcohol problems through their life stories. The men were in various stages of recovery and sobriety, and data collection consisted of open-ended interviews and analysis utilizing principles and techniques from grounded theory and ethnographic content analysis. Alcoholism and other serious social problems facing Native American communities need to be understood in the sociocultural and historical contexts of colonization and historical grief and trauma. This study suggests that for Native American men, there are culturally specific perspectives on alcohol that have important implications for prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse. The participants’ narratives provided insight into the ways reconnecting with traditional cultural values (retraditionalization) helped them achieve sobriety. For these men, alcohol was highly symbolic of colonization as well as a protest to it. Alcohol was a means for affirming “Indian” identity and sobriety a means for reaffirming traditional tribal identity. Their narratives suggested the ways in which elements of traditional cultural values and practices facilitate healing in syncretic models and Nativized treatment. Understanding the ways in which specific Native cultural groups perceive their problems with drinking and sobriety can create more culturally congruent, culturally sensitive, and effective treatment approaches and inform future research.
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Solankhi, Ruchi. "THE PROPERTY OF AN ADVANCED MANLINESS: A FEMININE FELLA IN THE DRAMA." International Journal of Social Sciences & Economic Environment 3, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.53882/ijssee.2018.0302003.
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Feminine Man in Indian English Theatre is the subject of this paper as a new location for gender politics. Society develops gender assumptions based on how men and women behave in a cultural environment. Many detractors argue that gender is a social construct, whereas sex is biology. Since the start of civilization, each epoch has had its own distinct vision of what it means to be a man. Masculinity in today's society is defined in a broad sense. Feminine Man is a result of today's masculinity. In modern Indian English theatre, the 'invisible' issue of gender identity is revealed. Mahesh Dattani's comedy Dance Like a Man is about masculinity. Jairaj Parekh, the protagonist of India's new age theatre, represents and emphasises this Feminine Man tendency, which is influenced by social circumstances in some way. Keywords: India, sociological phenomena, play, staging, protagonist
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Kharitonova, Natalia Iu. "R. del Valle Inclán’s Novel Tirano Banderas in the Light of Intersectional Analysis." Studia Litterarum 7, no. 4 (2022): 108–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-108-125.
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Spanish writer R. del Valle Inclán wrote the novel Tirano Banderas (1926), when Spain was developing a new policy towards the Latin America after the definite loss of its overseas colonies in 1898. Valle Inclán advocated the restoration of indigenous peoples’ rights, political and economic sovereignty of the Latin American countries. The intersectional analysis clarifies the writer’s anticolonial concept. On the basis of racial identity, the novel’s characters form two groups: Spaniards and foreigners, and Indians and Creoles. Indians are an oppressed race, while the Spaniards and foreigners are oppressors. But General Santos Banderas, who tyrannizes his country, is an Indian too. Additional light is shed due to the analysis of gender and social role and its symbolic dimensions. The female characters in the novel forced to ask men for help but their demands are justified if they act in the interests of their children. Paternity also has the connotations of care and protection, and symbolically, care for the nation. The tyrant Banderas, who kills his insane daughter, fails both as father and as an Indian ruler since he appropriates the oppressor’s role imported from the metropolis.
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Alapati, Purnachandra Rao, Venkata Raghu Ram Mantri, Kalpana Devi G, and Subba Rao V. V. "Submission to Subversion: An Analytical Study of Meena Kandasamy's ‘When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife’." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 11 (November 3, 2022): 2397–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1211.21.
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Meena Kandasamy tries to create an identity among the galaxy of Indian writers in English as a poet, novelist and translator. She deals with caste annihilation, feminism and linguistic identity. Meena Kandasamy's novel, 'When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife', deals with the suppression of women in the name of patriarchal society in educated families. She explains the story of a highly educated Indian woman from an affluent family who marries a respected college professor. He seems to be a man who is a social rights activist outside the home, but he abuses his wife at home. Kandasamy depicts a dreadful picture explaining her husband's strategies to keep her under his control. In this context, she delineates the emotions a woman undergoes while adjusting herself to the situation in the family. The writer attempts to develop the status of a woman by discussing more the turmoil she comes across in every part of her life. She wants to disclose to the world that a woman is a human being. She is wise enough to remain uncrushed and unperturbed despite challenges and hostilities. The novel vividly depicts the power game between men and women in Indian families and other societies.
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Guna Saigaran, Nithiya, and Abdulrahman Bello Bada. "Perceptions of Malaysian Indian Women on Domestic Violence in Malaysia: A Peek into the Indian Households." Kajian Malaysia 41, no. 2 (October 31, 2023): 173–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/km2023.41.2.9.
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This study investigates how Malaysian Indian women perceived and internalised domestic violence in Malaysia. Domestic violence is linked to gender issues that have disproportionately affected women compared to men in society. In traditional societies, women were frequently socialised to be subordinate to men in terms of roles, responsibilities and positions. These setbacks have contributed to the domestic violence issue among women. Domestic violence is a prime example of exploitation and discrimination against women in various aspects of their lives. Women have typically been passive and resisting domestic violence experiences to protect their household, male partners, children and society. The data for this study were gathered through in-depth interviews with 24 Malaysian Indian women, who were recruited through the purposive sampling technique. The qualitative data was analysed with Nvivo11 software. Three themes were identified that reflect participants’ perceptions of domestic violence in Malaysia. First, participants saw domestic violence as a normalising aspect of marital life. Second, participants saw domestic violence as a serious problem that affects women and their rights. Third, participants saw domestic violence as a sign of male identity to protect women. This study offers gender perspectives, such as the impact of masculinities, the patriarchal system and unequal power relationships in the household. It also explains the complexities of women’s socialisation in traditional households, as well as enlightening various stakeholders in Malaysia on the perceptions of Malaysian Indian women on domestic violence.
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Schnepel, Ellen M. "East Indians in the Caribbean." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 73, no. 3-4 (January 1, 1999): 83–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002579.
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[First paragraph]Transients to Settlers: The Experience of Indians in Jamaica 1845-J950. VERENE SHEPHERD. Leeds, U.K.: Peepal Tree Books, 1993. 281 pp. (Paper £12.95)Survivors of Another Crossing: A History of East Indians in Trinidad, 1880-1946. MARIANNE D. SOARES RAMESAR. St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago: U.W.I. School of Continuing Education, 1994. xiii + 190 pp. (Paper n.p.)Les Indes Antillaises: Presence et situation des communautes indiennes en milieu caribeen. ROGER TOUMSON (ed.). Paris: L'Harmattan, 1994. 264 pp. (Paper 140.00 FF)Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora. PETER VAN DER VEER (ed.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. vi + 256 pp. (Cloth US$ 39.95, Paper US$ 17.95)In the decade since 1988, Caribbean nations with Indian communities have commemorated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of East Indians to the West Indies. These celebrations are part of local revitalization movements of Indian culture and identity stretching from the French departement of Guadeloupe in the Windward Islands to Trinidad and Guyana in the south. Political changes have mirrored the cultural revival in the region. While the debate so often in the past centered on the legitimacy of East Indian claims to local nationality in these societies where African or Creole cultures dominate, in the 1990s leaders of Indian descent were elected heads of government in the two Caribbean nations with the most populous East Indian communities: Cheddi Jagan as President of Guyana in October 1992 (after a 28-year hiatus) and Basdeo Panday as Prime Minister of Trinidad in November 1995. Both men have long been associated with their respective countries' struggles for economic, political, and social equality. Outside the region during the summer of 1997, fiftieth-anniversary celebrations marking the independence of India and Pakistan from Britain confirmed that Indo chic — or "Indofrenzy" as anthropologist Arjun Appadurai calls it (Sengupta 1997:13) - has captured the American imagination with the new popularity of literature, art, and film emanating from India and its diaspora.
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ROBB, MEGAN EATON. "Women's Voices, Men's Lives: Masculinity in a North Indian Urdu newspaper." Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 5 (June 27, 2016): 1441–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x15000335.
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AbstractLiterary journals and newspapers aiming to reform the religious beliefs and domestic habits of women were common in early twentieth-century North India. Although most readings have focused on how these texts reflected male legislation of women's behaviour, we should look at Muslim reformist literature to understand male experiences; this investigation offers new insights into an emergent middle-class identity defined more by manners than birth. Readings of a previously little-researched Urdu newspaper, Madinah, and its women's section offer new insights on male experiences of reformism, characterized by profound ambivalence. Playfulness emerged in some reformist descriptions of women's voices, channelling the influence of rekhti. Ultimately Madinah cultivated pride in Islam's strict division of gender roles and conversely threatened men with shame for failing to regulate uneducated women. Descriptions of powerful, Ottoman women warriors were framed to incite men to acts of bravery, using reports from Europe as cautionary examples of the over-indulgence of women. While the newspaper offered outlets for men to express curiosity about women's experiences, ultimately reformist literature limited expressions of pleasure. Male ambivalence regarding the implications of the reformist project remained embedded in writing about women.
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Meher, Bandana, and Arun Kumar Acharya. "De-Identifying the Distressed in the Transgender Community Related to Their Identity Formation and Discrimination in India." Genealogy 6, no. 4 (December 2, 2022): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6040092.
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Transgender people in India hold a dualistic perspective on their identity. In one way, they are considered a disgraceful entity in society and, at the same time, they resemble the “Ardhanareswar” version of the Hindu God Shiva (Ardhanareswar version of Shiva: among Shiv’s many avatars, Ardhanareswar is the only one in which the god embodied both genders in a single amalgamation. That represented both the male and female gender). Also, they have been referred to as derogatory names, which are often used as slang for men who are “not man enough” and more resemble femininity. In the case of the trans women community, they are caught up in the binary status of gender, which completely ignores the third gender, and hence suffer along with the secondary status of womanhood in Indian society. In this perspective, there was and is gradual exclusion and discrimination against the trans women community. Gender identity and available occupational choice influence their occupational decision making. In this regard, the present study tries to explore the identity formation and discrimination faced by the transgender community in Sambalpur, Western Odisha. Furthermore, it tries to understand the construction of their identity through the theory of Othering. It also strives to look at the impact of discrimination on their personal, social, and health prospects in the community and evaluate the impact of the schemes implemented for them. The study is conducted among 45 trans women in the Sambalpur city in Western Odisha. Based on its prejudices, Indian society continues to create transgender identity. To give them proper recognition, government scheme assistance is insufficient at times, and people’s mindsets must be changed.
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I. Choudhary, Ajay. "BUDDHIST IDENTITY: A CASE STUDY OF BUDDHIST WOMEN’S NARRATIVES IN NAGPUR CITY." POLITICS AND RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA 7, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 113–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.54561/prj0701113c.
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Indian women rarely observed as independent identity due to its caste hierachization. Thus a woman identity along with an identity of being lower caste simultaneously makes her a victim of a rigidly imbibed patriarchy and the caste system in our society. Lots of conversion had taken place to transform the life of human beings. But the investigative studies done on these kinds of religious conversions mostly focused on men and gave less importance on its impact on women identity. Among these conversions, Dr. Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism had succeeded to a great extent in providing a new respectable identity to many. Yet the status of Buddhist women, among the Buddhist community, remained the most unexamined part of this conversion. Thus, this paper tries to examine whether the Buddhist identity succeeded to provide a sense of self respect and equal status to Buddhist women or what extent the Buddhist identity stood able to replace their stigmatized identity in public sphere by investigating the narrative provided by the Buddhist women about their own identity.
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Reema Devi, PriyaRaghav. "A Critical Study of Draupadi in Disguise in Context to Power Dynamics." Tuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology 44, no. 4 (October 16, 2023): 7520–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.52783/tjjpt.v44.i4.2602.
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Intention and purpose shape an individual’s actions and their results. Social, political, and some personal reasons compel people to disguise their identity. A disguised person begins living in a new form by adopting the respective occupation, name, or fake identity. However, the masked identity could be a temporary solution to problems because it is extremely difficult to hide one’s true identity. True identity reflects one’s principles, ethics, and dispositions. Indian mythology narrates a plethora of cases where Hindu deities or men metamorphose their real identities to serve their purpose. The Mahabharata-the Indian epic also records some such incidents when its characters are bound to act in disguise. However, their intention and purpose justify their actions. Nevertheless, hiding their true identity puts them in a vulnerable position. In VirataParva, we see the five Pandavas along with their common wife Draupadi spend one year at Matsya Kingdom in disguise due to their political tussle with their cousins Kauravas. They adopted different forms and occupations. Draupadi’s disguised identity caused her to work as a maid to the queen of the kingdom. This raises certain questions: By adopting the role, did she face any difficulty as a woman of low rank? How did she deal with the new circumstances? This paper aims to study Draupadi’s character in a new light to the specific narrative in disguise.
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Rajesh, Saundarya, Karthik Ekambaram, Anju Rakesh, and Divya Kumar. "Gender Inclusion in an Indian VUCA World." NHRD Network Journal 12, no. 2 (April 2019): 112–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2631454119835711.
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One of the most crucial talent identity strands (also referred to as a human resources dimension) in India Inc. is gender. Given that the rate of change in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment is much faster (and less predictable) than in the past decades, corporate efforts towards managing this dimension of gender have a strong bearing on their ability to effectively combat VUCA. These efforts include those directed towards talent management—attracting, hiring, retaining and developing talent, catering to the differences in aspirations and working styles of men and women. Against this backdrop, this article draws insights from corporate India’s most comprehensive gender analytics exercise—The Working Mother and AVTAR 100 Best Companies for Women in India study—to shed light on the interlinkage between the intent and commitment in employing diversity and inclusion as a culture strategy towards thriving in a VUCA environment.
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Smith, Carol A. "Race-Class-Gender Ideology in Guatemala: Modern and Anti-Modern Forms." Comparative Studies in Society and History 37, no. 4 (October 1995): 723–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500019939.
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More often than not, women bear the burden of displaying the identifying symbols of their ethnic identity to the outside world, whether these be items of dress, aspects of language, or distinctive behavior. Men of the same ethnic group, especially when filling lower-order positions in the local division of labor, usually appear indistinguishable from men of a different ethnicity but in similar class positions. Thus in Guatemala, for example, one readily identifies a Maya Indian woman by her distinctive and colorful dress, her tendency to speak only the local dialect of a Maya language, and her modest demeanor when in public settings, especially those involving non-Maya. Most Maya men, in contrast, are not so easily distinguished from non-Maya (that is, Ladino) men of equivalent class in Guatemala.
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Tjepkema, M., R. Wilkins, S. Senécal, É. Guimond, and C. Penney. "Mortality of urban Aboriginal adults in Canada, 1991–2001." Chronic Diseases in Canada 31, no. 1 (December 2010): 4–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.31.1.03.
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Objective To compare mortality patterns for urban Aboriginal adults with those of urban non-Aboriginal adults. Methods Using the 1991–2001 Canadian census mortality follow-up study, our study tracked mortality to December 31, 2001, among a 15% sample of adults, including 16 300 Aboriginal and 2 062 700 non-Aboriginal persons residing in urban areas on June 4, 1991. The Aboriginal population was defined by ethnic origin (ancestry), Registered Indian status and/or membership in an Indian band or First Nation, since the 1991 census did not collect information on Aboriginal identity. Results Compared to urban non-Aboriginal men and women, remaining life expectancy at age 25 years was 4.7 years and 6.5 years shorter for urban Aboriginal men and women, respectively. Mortality rate ratios for urban Aboriginal men and women were particularly elevated for alcohol-related deaths, motor vehicle accidents and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS. For most causes of death, urban Aboriginal adults had higher mortality rates compared to other urban residents. Socio-economic status played an important role in explaining these disparities. Conclusion Results from this study help fill a data gap on mortality information of urban Aboriginal people of Canada.
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Gope, Adwitiya, and Dr Gyanabati Khuraijam. "Dynamics of Politics and Poetics of Home: A Study of Manju Kapur’s Home." Space and Culture, India 7, no. 3 (November 25, 2019): 14–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v7i3.419.
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The territory of the home is not only regarded in terms of physical space but also in terms of human affection and influence. The status of women within the social structure of their families and/or communities is paralleled as well as informed by their position in the physical structure of their houses and homes. An Indian woman is yet to seek an identity as a human being with equal status in the family in which she is born and in the family to which she is given in marriage. This research attempts to make a study of Manju Kapur’s novel Home to reveal many issues deeply rooted within a family and explore the dynamics of relationships that prevail in an Indian home. Nisha, the protagonist in the novel, tries to subvert age-old traditional norms and values of her home, which is symbolic of Indian society in microcosm, that threatens to subvert her existence as an individual. Manju Kapur’s women contest and defend their domestic territories because they are contesting not only for power, but for their self-esteem, identity and individuality. The home obviously is a gendered living space of an everyday life, and that young Indian women are not accepting traditional roles conferred by ‘home’ onto them passively; instead, they seem to be (re)traditionaliszing their strategies of housework and childcare responsibilities. Through this paper we wish to highlight that change in the traditional roles played by women in homes reproduces dynamics of politics of home thereby enhancing dynamics of poetics of home. The study of politics and poetics of home further analyses how the relationship between women and men as well as ideas about masculinity and femininity are shaped by the intersection of tradition and modernity. The study explores a dialogue between tradition and modernity with an aim to project yearning for autonomy and separate identity. Kapur poignantly shows the evolution of an Indian woman in the midst of the repressive patriarchal structure of an Indian home.
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Yalovenko, Olha. "Specificity of Understanding the Problem of Gender Relations in Jhumpa Lahiri`s Writing." Fìlologìčnì traktati 12, no. 2 (2020): 136–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2020.12(2)-15.
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The article deals with the specificity of understanding the problem of gender relations in Jhumpa Lahiri`s writing (the American writer of Bengali origin). The article`s aim is to explore the peculiarities of gender relations in the context of the transculture paradigm in Jhumpa Lahiri`s writing. Research methods: historical and typological (determining the specifics of themes, motifs, images, story features of the writer`s works), hermeneutic (interpretation of various aspects of the literary text), narratological analysis (specifics` analysis of J. Lahiri`s narrative manner). It is indicated that the study of gender issues is important in the modern literature discourse. The differences between the adaptation of men and women to the new cultural environment are clearly seen in Jhumpa Lahiri`s writing. Yes, men`s purpose is to realize their “American dream”, as most of them emigrate in search of a better life, scientific and academic goals (an example is the man from the story “Mrs. Sen`s”). Like Bengali families, men have every right to make all the important decisions in the family. The features of Indian women's adaptation to the new culture, which are seen not only in overcoming the language barrier, but are traced in everyday life and in relations with men, are analyzed. Women have completely different adaptation experiences. The problem of gender relations is traced to the identity crisis of the Indian woman in America, who balances between cultures and lives in two worlds: wants to be American and at the same time not forget her “desh” (literally “homeland” in Bengali). A stereotyped image of an Indian woman who “sacrifices” herself and remains in despair within the American apartment`s walls is portrayed in Jhumpa Lahiri`s works. Gender specificity is seen in the role of “invisible existence”: heroines are associated with maids who can cook dinner and wash socks only. Women seek refuge in the past and avoid the present. Unlike men, the assimilation process is much more difficult for women. It is mentioned that J. Lahiri shows the material dependence of women on men. The problem of gender relations that is also associated with the decline of family values, where marriage becomes a temporary matter, is no less important.
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Ajmi, B. "A Critique of Gender Roles in Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man." Shanlax International Journal of English 10, no. 1 (December 1, 2021): 42–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v10i1.4447.
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Bharatanatyam is an ancient Indian classical dance form that originated from Tamil Nadu. It was performed by devadasis (prostitutes) in royal courts in the early period. Later, the elite Indian class separates it from devadasis and makes it more like a commodity. A man’s passion towards such kind of an art form creates commotion in a patriarchal society. His manhood is questioned and he is considered as inferior to the exaggerated version of masculinity. The breaking of particular roles which are destined to each gender in a society leads to tension within the patriarchy. Mahesh Dattani’s play Dance Like a Man explores themes like gender discrimination, stereotyping, gender roles and identity crisis. In reality, the problems of men due to gender discrimination is not discussed effectively. This play tries to give a clear picture of a male victim of gender discrimination through Jairaj’s character. The current research explores the problems in reversing gender roles, question on masculinity and involvement of society in carrying gender stereotypes as portrayed in Dance Like a Man.
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Bose, Neilesh. "Muslim Modernism and Trans-regional Consciousness in Bengal, 1911–1925." South Asia Research 31, no. 3 (November 2011): 231–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026272801103100303.
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Histories of Marxism in South Asia often focus on the great men of colonial Indian politics, such as M. N. Roy, who imagined political futures away from nation or identity, or narrowly on activists like Muzaffar Ahmad, the founder of the Communist Party of India, without consideration of the regional-historical and intellectual contexts out of which such activism and imaginations sprang. Using the Bengali Muslim context of the early twentieth century, this article examines how Muslim activists imagined their identity outside of and beyond normative frameworks such as nation or religious community. This article specifically analyses Samyabadi, a left-oriented journal published in Calcutta from 1922 to 1925, in the larger context of communist developments in Bengal and throughout India. The findings offer exciting support for new research approaches to regional and religious identity in late colonial South Asia.
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Matamonasa-Bennett, Arieahn. ""Until People Are Given the Right to Be Human Again": Voices of American Indian Men on Domestic Violence and Traditional Cultural Values." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37, no. 4 (January 1, 2013): 25–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicr.37.4.e182111585n56001.
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Domestic violence is a serious social problem in contemporary American Indian communities and research is critical to create and evaluate prevention and intervention strategies. This small qualitative study sought to discover the ways in which men from a single reservation community with histories of domestic violence define and perceive domestic violence within the cultural context. The narratives held themes of intergenerational family violence and dysfunction, alcoholism, racism, isolation, deep grief, and remorse. Each of the narratives also revealed themes of healing and hope through connecting with elders, learning spiritual traditions and strengthening cultural identity as a means for achieving sobriety and lives of nonviolence.
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Reddy, A. Amarender, Surabhi Mittal, Namrata Singha Roy, and Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri. "Time Allocation between Paid and Unpaid Work among Men and Women: An Empirical Study of Indian Villages." Sustainability 13, no. 5 (March 2, 2021): 2671. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052671.
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The paper examines the time allocation between paid work (wage earning or self-employed work generally termed as employment work) and unpaid (domestic chores/care work generally termed as non-employment work) along with wage rates, imputed earnings, and occupational structure among men and women and according to different social groups to establish the extent to which the rural labour market is discriminated by sex and social group. The major objective of the paper is to show the differential in wage income between men and women in farm and non-farm activities. The paper also shows the division of time between employment and non-employment activities by men and women. The paper uses high-frequency data and applies econometric techniques to know the factors behind time allocation among different activities across gender. The study finds that males spend more hours on employment work and work at a higher wage rate than females. As a result, a vast monetary income gap between men and women is observed, even though women worked more hours if employment and non-employment activities are jointly taken into consideration. Time spent on employment work and non-employment (mainly domestic chores) has been found to vary significantly due to social identity, household wealth, land, income, education, and skill. The segregation of labour market by sex was evident in this study, with men shifting to non-farm occupations with greater monetary returns and continued dependence on women’s farm activities. Enhancing the ownership of land and other assets, encouraging women’s participation particularly among minorities, and improving health are some of the policy recommendations directed from this study to enhance participation in employment work and shifting towards higher wage income employment.
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Nath, Utsa. "#Me Too: Sexual Violence against Men with reference to Workplace." International Journal of Legal Developments & Allied Issues 09, no. 04 (2023): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.55662/ijldai.2023.9401.
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Sexual violence can happen to any soul, no matter irrespective of the age, the sexual attitude, or the gender identity. The majority of rape and harassment incidents involve females, and laws are specifically designed to protect female victims of these crimes. Sexual harassment, which can take many different forms, including physical, verbal, non-verbal, and visual, is an unwanted sexual advance that interferes unreasonably with a person’s ability to fulfil their job duties or produces a hostile, abusive, or objectionable work environment. However, men are not given the same amount of attention as women when it comes to harassment. According to the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (No. 111) of 1958, sexual harassment is a type of sex discrimination that is covered by the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR). Sexual harassment in the workplace is expressly forbidden by the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (No. 169) of the ILO. The Violence and Harassment Convention, (ILO C190) which was adopted on June 21, 2019, acknowledges everyone’s right irrespective of any gender, to an environment free from violence and harassment at work. The right to equality is described in Article 14 of the Indian Constitution, which also states that it is one of our Fundamental Rights. The challenges addressed by women are, nevertheless, given more attention in the legislation. The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, refers solely to “women” and outlines specific remedies and measures for women who have experienced harassment. Through this law, only women’s fundamental rights to life, dignity, and the ability to practice their profession in a setting free of sexual harassment are recognized as being violated. The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, should be extended to men as soon as possible. Additionally, the Indian Penal Code should be amended to include some particular parts to protect men from harassment. For both men and women, there must be a desire for “equal access to justice.” Laws that protect men from various forms of harassment, assault, or rape in various settings must be created by the government and legislative bodies.
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Hartwell, Fabian Alexander. "Burhan Wani and the Masculinities of the Indian State." Journal of Extreme Anthropology 1, no. 3 (August 10, 2017): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jea.4688.
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Burhan Wani, the ‘pin-up boy’ of Kashmiri separatism was shot dead by Indian Special Forces in July 2016. Wani, a commander for Kashmir-based militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, was popular on social media for his advocacy against Indian rule in Kashmir and his calls suggesting violent insurrection against the Indian state. As a Kashmiri Muslim, Wani was doubly marginalised by the dominant Hinduised space of the imagined Indian nation; his reactive masculinity directly challenged the Hindu bravado he encountered in the state-sanctioned hyper-masculinity exemplified by the Indian Armed Forces. The article is inspired by the theoretical contributions of Jasbir Puar and Sudhir Kakar, who argue that the heteronormativity of society is produced through the homosexual and that the Hindu is constituted through the Muslim Other. Furthermore, utilizing Dibyesh Anand’s critical conceptualization of Indian nationalism as ‘porno nationalism’, the article argues that the way the Muslim is constituted is by fetishisation of the Muslim body as ‘hypersexed’, ‘abnormal’ and often criminal. Wani’s masculinity and his public representation constitute a nexus between the technological advancement that enables growing linkages between elements of the global jihad, the emergence of a transnational jihadi culture and him as a role model for young men, whose class and religious identity is superseded by the irredentist claims of the freedom fighter. Refocusing our attention from the superstructures of global masculine posturing to localized, individual experiences of violence, this article aims to reposition Wani, and Muslims, as integral to the masculinities of the Indian State.
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Rajkumar, G. "Retelling of The Ramayana in The Voice of Sita- A Epic Revisiting in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Forest of Enchantment." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 9, no. 4 (April 1, 2022): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v9i4.4606.
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Epic and Myth has its significance and impact in Indian culture and writing all as the years progressed. The characters and the happenings in the novel have invigorated numerous readers and writers. Reinterpretation /Reevaluation and retelling have arisen in Literature, Re-telling Myth in unique perspective view has become a pattern lately. Drawing out the unseen perspectives of the characters in prewritten text, have impacted numerous in all dialects. The large portion of retelling folklore in current scenario isn’t on men rather on women's Perspective. Most of the stories that rotates around the female characters and their perspective on the happenings. Among numerous Indian writers, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is one who gives voice in the predominant man patriarchal culture/society.
The Forest OF Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is about the retelling of our old lofty epic of The Ramayana according to Sita's perspective. This novel brims the Sita who is a celebrated female character from an ancient India to Modern India. In this way, Divakaruni has changed her perspective from conventional depiction of basic and selfless women into Modern day female characters that is looking for their Self Identity in the male patriarchal world.
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Subrahmanian, Maya. "Socio-Cultural Traits and Gender Elements: An Analysis through Indian Diaspora in Germany." Center for Asia and Diaspora 12, no. 2 (August 31, 2022): 175–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.175.
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What makes a culture and what are the cultural traits identified by people are important questions to be developed more within diaspora studies. This article proposes a critical inquiry into the ways of defining socio-cultural traits through the discussions with Indian diaspora living in the context of Western culture. It suggests hypothesis that there is a possibility of hybrid cultures between the Eastern and Western. The ontological status of being ‘Indian’ would be different while living in India and abroad, and the cultural ontology in those subject positions would also vary to produce hybrid cultures. Theories of migration, culture and gender constitute a background and framework in this study. Reflections on cultural identity and cultural traits are obtained in this study through direct interviews with diaspora Indians living in Germany. In this process of analyses, the methodology of gender is adopted along with other methods of qualitative research to see how the socio-cultural perspectives change after migration to Western cultures, and how those are different among men and women. The preliminary argument derived in this article is that cultural traits can be traced in aspects of people’s daily life, but not only through dominant art forms, literature or historical monuments. It is done with a critical perspective on the existing dominant methods of defining culture. This study has a critic on existing methodologies that are Eurocentric, male-centric and neglecting the individual and mundane experiences of people who live in varied cultural contexts with complex cultural identities.
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Lane, Jill. "ImpersoNation: Toward a Theory of Black-, Red-, and Yellowface in the Americas." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (October 2008): 1728–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1728.
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How shall we face the enormous evidence of impersonation as a central cultural practice in the development of national discourses in the Americas?It is well known that, in December 1773, a ship named Dartmouth sat idle in Boston Harbor, prevented from unloading her cargo by the governor in protest of the import tax and prevented from leaving the harbor by customs rules. As the customs period came to a close, a group of newly patriotic Bostonians came up with a plan to resolve the crisis. One historian recounts, “a chorus of Indian war whoops sounded outside the hall and a party of what looked like Indian men ran to the wharf, entered the ships, and proceeded to dump the tea in Boston Harbor” (Deloria 2). And the rest, as they say, was history: the Boston Tea Party has since functioned as favored tale of origin for American independence and national identity.
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Rangwala, Shenaz, Chanaka Jayawardhena, and Gunjan Saxena. "“From caged birds to women with wings”." European Journal of Marketing 54, no. 11 (February 26, 2020): 2803–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-02-2019-0135.
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Purpose This study aims to explore consumption practices of new middle-class Indian women to explicate how they are challenging traditional social norms and redefining their identity through their consumption practices. Design/methodology/approach A total of 32 semi-structured and photo-elicitation interviews were conducted with new middle-class women between the age group of 23 and 40 years in India. Findings This study illustrates how the doing of consumption practices that involve creating, controlling, knowing and transforming is enabling new middle-class Indian women to undo gender disparities embedded in hegemonic patriarchal social order. Also, the study provides new insights into how class and symbolic capital intersect gender to redefine middle-class women’s feminine self. Research limitations/implications This study specifically illustrates how new middle-class women are using consumption practices to uplift their position in household; bring about new modes of social interface; and identity expression and a reversal in gender roles. Practical implications The conflation of women’s independence with consumerism underlines the need for marketers to position consumer goods in a manner that strengthens women’s self and alleviates cultural perceptions of women as subordinate to men in the household. Indian market has considerable growth potential for publicly visible brands that affirm the elevated social status of women and allow them to effectively demonstrate their capital resources. Originality/value An under-researched consumer segment is explored by focusing particularly on the intersection of discourses of women’s individuality with that of their consumption practices. Additionally, pioneering use of photo-elicitation technique coupled with hermeneutic approach enabled to elicit effectively women’s reflections on their behaviours, values and motivations underlying their consumption practices.
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Prabhakar Madella and Brij Govind. "Infeasible Desires of Women in Girish Karnad’s Selected Plays." Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research 12, no. 4 (September 6, 2023): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.32553/jbpr.v12i4.1016.
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This article is a humble attempt to search the identity of women in the patriarchal society prevailing in India. The condition of women in India has undergone several alterations since past millennia. During the Vedic time, women enjoyed a higher status and were extolled to the heights of Heaven by epitomising her as Goddess. Gradually with the passage of time women lost their status and dignity. She is regarded as an abla, a weak and helpless lady who depends upon man for her existence and sustenance. Indian Literature viewed women as role bound possession whose sacrifices preserved the sanctity and the well being of the family. Literature has always been ambivalent in its representation of women. Writers observed that women had become a heated argument and they started portraying them in their works. They drew inspirations from the real life incidents, which talked about liberating the images. This article traces the paradigm shift where women emerge despite all obstacles to hold her identity in personal and professional life. This paper aims at portraying, the women is no more an accessory to man rather she is a companion, a life partner who is equal to men in all aspects.
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Kunze, Andrew. "“They Were Talking about Themselves”." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 47, no. 2 (September 24, 2018): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsor.34692.
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Michael Altman’s Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu offers a major contribution to the history of Hinduism in America, as it revises the standard “Transcendentalist-Theosophist-Vivekananda-1965” trajectory with a critical eye toward the nationalist and orientalist discourses of formative episodes from the Colonial era up to Chicago’s World Parliament (xvii). Altman’s genealogical approach presumes no essence or definition of ‘Hinduism,’ which both suits his source materials and serves his interest in classification quite well. Throughout this history, a rich set of examples shows how ‘hazy notions’ of Indian religion variously served as discursive foils and straw-men against white, Protestant American identity¬–from scathing missionary accounts of barbaric ‘Juggernaut’ worship (30), to the racial hierarchies in American geography schoolbooks (59), Thoreau’s Walden Pond as a River Ganges (86), and the Indian-derived, but not Hindu, ‘wisdom religion’ of the Theosophical Society (109). As Altman convincingly argues, when white, Protestant Americans talked about religion in India, “they were not really talking about religion in India. They were talking about themselves” (xxi), and thereby constituting their own racial, national, and religious identities (140).
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Alam, Sohaib, and Shafey Anwarul Haque. "Gender, Language and Indian Reality Television: Locating Social Stereotypes and Linguistic Sexism." Journal of Education Culture and Society 12, no. 2 (September 25, 2021): 482–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.2.482.492.
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Aim. The reality genre has gained much popularity in last few years across the globe. In India too, this genre has reportedly surpassed other genres in recognition and acceptance. However, its format and content intrigue controversies at both social and academic level, but its mass appeal gets bigger each day. The study examines gender, language and issues of gendered language in Indian reality show Bigg Boss. While keeping in view the format and claim of the genre, the study observes how under thorough surveillance, housemates negotiate with their real self and grapple with their language practice. Influence of neoliberalism on society, culture and identity has been very much discussed, the paper attempts to highlight how this transitions in gender identity is depicted in a show taking non-actors and common people. Concept. For the purpose of the study, scripted transcription of Bigg Boss (Season 11) has been used, wherein all the episodes of have been watched back and forth carefully, and detailed notes prepared for the analysis. Housemates’ language practice, voice pattern and preference of words and statements have been observed. Results and conclusion. The study finds that game reality show Bigg Boss substantially adheres to social stereotypes and standards and while doing so, it also imitates the language practice prevalent everywhere. Although active participation of women in the show is visible butt while exhibiting their true self, sometimes gender prejudice embedded deep inside also comes out, which in case of men is very frequent. The study concludes that as a globally acclaimed genre, reality show, like other genres, is very much commercialized and consumer oriented. Originality. A number of studies related to reality shows have been conducted, but in Indian context, this genre has been inadequately explored. Also, it is very difficult to find studies focusing any specific season of an Indian reality show, so it would not be incorrect to mention that the present study is one of the primary works on this subject, which aims at making some significant contribution related to this genre, in academia.
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Guevara, Iricenia, Gonzalo Cabrera, Nader Suleiman, and Nadila Sanjur. "ROLE OF GENDER IN THE CONSERVATION OF THE NGABERE LANGUAGE IN SITIO PRADO, INDIGENOUS AREA." Revista Colegiada de Ciencia 5, no. 2 (April 24, 2024): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.48204/j.colegiada.v5n2.a5013.
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Language plays a significant role in our daily lives and is an essential part of our identity as human beings and members of society. It holds unique views, patterns, and beliefs distinct from its speakers; as Amery (2019) noted, when a minority group speaks a different language, they can choose to keep using it, become bilingual, or switch to the dominant language. The first option is language maintenance, where the community collectively chooses to keep using their traditional language(s) (Fasold, 1984). The second option is bilingualism, where individuals use both languages in different contexts for cognitive and social reasons, as Grosjean (2008) and García (2009) pointed out. Bilingualism is excellent for professional development and preserving heritage languages. Some Indian communities in America face language extinction, but some indigenous areas in Panama have successfully preserved their cultural heritage for centuries. A study was done to see if women in indigenous communities are less likely to use heritage languages than men. Participants took an oral and written exam and were asked which language they preferred for daily conversations. The study had support from a bilingual facilitator. The study was conducted with a sample of 120 people of legal age, including 60 men and 60 women, from the local area of Sitio Prado. Results showed that, as hypothesized, women are more conservative in the Ngäbere language than men by a small margin of difference of 3% in the preference level in using the Ngäbere language. It was also shown that both women and men are more conservative in their mother tongue between the ages of 24 and 29. Preserving the Ngäbere language is crucial for future generations and their cultural identity. It should be introduced into the formal education system.
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Satendra Kumar. "Women: Perspectives and Issues in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time and Small Remedies." Creative Launcher 7, no. 2 (April 30, 2022): 97–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.2.12.
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A noteworthy novelist and author of many children books, Shashi Deshpande, has acquired a unique place in Indian writing in English. Her novels are written in simple and lucid language. All of them deal with simple people belonging to small strata of society in general as well as predicament of women in particular in the society and family. Her women characters seem to be alive and breathing in the surrounding nearby each of us as we see in our daily life. They are ordinary women who struggle for their own identity, self-realization and emancipation. Since Indian society is adhered to patriarchal set up, as a result the traditional women in Shashi Deshpande’s novels face the problem of suppression, oppression, injustice, exploitation and marginalization. Even if they are educated, they are the victims of several kinds of evils. Shashi Deshpande is much sieved to think the condition of women and fought for the cause of women. In the time of Shashi Deshpande men thought women as child-bearing machine. She tries her best to make aware her women their rights and fills them with courage in order they may demand their rights and make a niche in the society.
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Dumenil, Ms Cheryl Antonette, and Dr Cheryl Davis. "A Mourning Myth Behind The Misty Arunachal Pradesh-‘Women." Think India 22, no. 3 (September 26, 2019): 138–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8085.
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Arunachal Pradesh is a North East Indian state filled with mist and glorifying myth of its own origins. The region has a vast cultural, linguistic, ethnic and religious background. The people of this region are united in a way though the states are filled with many differences.The Northeast part of India has long been on the fringe of mainstream literary consciousness, edged out by its complex sociopolitics, crisis of identity and the prolonged rule of the gun. Issues like nationality, identity, ethnicity has increased with the onset of globalization. Apart from the entire crisis, women who were once considered sacred and worshipped are of late being trampled upon.This paper is an attempt to unveil the hidden myth that women are celebrated in unison with men and nature. In this region women mourn behind the misty land Arunachal Pradesh. Their voices are that of the subaltern which can never speak or if spoken will never be heard. Despite the growth in technology and society the mentality of the male chauvinists of this region remains rusted with the ideologies of patriarchy and dominance.
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Kamenetskaia, S. "The lexeme <i>chino</i> in Mexican Spanish." Cuadernos Iberoamericanos 11, no. 1 (April 24, 2023): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46272/2409-3416-2023-11-1-132-145.
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In accordance with the affirmation expressed by the British linguist David Crystal that «language is the primary index, or symbol, or register of identity», this article examines the meaning of the word chino in Mexico as «curly hair» which, unlike all Spanish-speaking countries, has a private and peculiar meaning to this nation, being the hallmark of its identity. Different sources, both lexicographical and theoretical, are analyzed regarding this meaning and it is concluded that this meaning has to do with the miscegenation that occurred in New Spain, particularly among Indian women with black men, who, according to different names of the castes, derived in the so-called «chino» due to the predominance of the black gene in the blood, which gave them the African physical characteristics, among which is, precisely, the curly hair, and, based on this distinctive feature, the meaning of «curly hair» became general and began to be used to name all people with curly hair without necessarily having African features, a designation that is still actively used among Mexicans.
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Priydarshi, Ashok Kumar. "Manju Kapur’s ‘Home’: A Strong Voice of Protest." Journal of Advanced Research in English and Education 6, no. 03 (December 8, 2021): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.24321/2456.4370.202105.
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Women’s issues in India are different from those in the western countries where a woman’s quest for identity and survival become major discourses. Writers who are conscious of the “othering” of women need to make ordinary women understand the possibility of power, of being able to control their own lives, and to have this power, not as mothers, not as devoted wives, but as ordinary women. But, Indian women writers have to first battle against the deeply ingrained critical prejudices that writing is an activity which belongs exclusively to men and if a woman writes at all, it is always a futile exercise. Manju Kapur’s ‘Home’ is a feminist discourse not only because the novelist is a woman writing about women but also because she understands women’s minds.
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Intekhab, Sadia. "Exploring the Intersection of Feminist and Psychoanalytic Theory in the Confessional Poetry of Anita Nair and Kamala Das." East Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 2, no. 10 (November 4, 2023): 4321–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/eajmr.v2i10.5552.
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The genre of confessional poetry is defined by the poet's personal and frequently extremely emotional experiences. It first appeared in the middle of the 20th century and is characterised by a personal tone and the first-person point of view. This paper shall examine the confessional elements in the poetry of two prominent Indian poets, Anita Nair and Kamala Das, through a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. In order to examine themes of love, relationships, and identity in their poetry, Nair and Das use personal experiences, emotions, and thoughts in their poems. The paper will examine the intricate power relationships between men and women underlying Nair and Das' poetry. The paper will emphasise the complex intersection of gender, power, and personal experience that underlies Anita Nair's and Kamala Das's poetry through an analysis of the confessional elements in their works.
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Nguyen, Kirsten, and Gilbert Gonzales. "Differences in shared decision-making and prostate cancer screening by sexual orientation and race/ethnicity." Journal of Clinical Oncology 42, no. 16_suppl (June 1, 2024): 10525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2024.42.16_suppl.10525.
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10525 Background: There are well-documented disparities among racial and sexual minorities in prostate cancer screening uptake and shared-decision making (SDM) conversations. However, it is unclear how racial/ethnic identity and sexual orientation interact to affect prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing uptake. Methods: Data came from the 2018-2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS). Outcomes were survey responses to questions about engagement in SDM and PSA testing uptake. The sample included 88,365 heterosexual (HS) men and 2,562 sexual minority (SM) men ages 55 to 69. Data were stratified by race/ethnicity and survey-weighted logistic regression models analyzed the association between sexual orientation and outcomes. Models controlled for age, relationship status, education, household income, insurance status, having a usual source of care, and region. Results: White SM men were more likely to have discussed disadvantages of PSA testing with their healthcare provider [odds ratio (OR)=1.407; p<0.001] and to have undergone PSA testing [OR=1.320; p<0.001] compared to White HS men. Asian SM men were more likely to have had discussions about PSA testing [OR=4.470; p<0.05]; to have discussed advantages [OR=4.596; p<0.05]; to have been recommended PSA testing [OR=4.836; p<0.05] and to have undergone PSA testing [OR=4.401; p<0.001] compared to Asian HS men. Black SM men were more likely to undergo screening because of an issue or a reason besides routine screening [OR=1.073, p<0.05] compared with Black HS men. Hispanic SM men were more likely to have undergone screening as part of a routine checkup [OR=4.2, p<0.001] compared with Hispanic HS men. There were no sexual orientation differences in PSA screening or SDM among American Indian or Native Alaskans. Conclusions: Differences in PSA testing uptake and SDM by sexual orientation vary by race/ethnicity. Further research is needed to study the factors affecting PSA testing uptake and SDM among sexual minority men of different racial/ethnic groups. [Table: see text]