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Kapadia, Karin.

Siva and Her Sisters : Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India / Siva & her sisters - Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995. - xv, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Studies in the ethnographic imagination .

Contents
The Politics Of Cultural Contestation;
Introduction: The Untouchable Rejection of Hegemony and False Consciousness;
Kinship Burns!: Kinship Discourses and Gender;
Marrying Money: Changing Preference and Practice in Tamil Marriage;
Blood Across the Stars: Astrology and the Construction of Gender;
The Vulnerability of Power: Puberty Rituals;
Dancing the Goddess: Possession, Caste, and Gender The Politics Of Everyday Life;
Beware, It Sticks!: Discourses of Gender and Caste Gender And Production Politics;
Pauperizing the Rural Poor: Landlessness in Aruloor;
Every Blade of Green: Landless Women Laborers, Production, and Reproduction;
Discipline and Control: Labor Contracts and Rural Female Labor;
Mutuality and Competition: Women Landless Laborers and Wage Rates;
In Gods Eyes: Gender, Caste, and Class in Aruloor.

ISBN: 9780813334912

LCCN: 94038588

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Caste--India, South.
Women--Social conditions.--India, South
Social Classes--India, South.

LC Class. No.: HT720 / .K2957 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 305.40954 KAP