TY - BOOK AU - Arya, Sunaina and Rathore, Aakash Singh TI - Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader SN - 9780367438418 U1 - R10.2 23 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Feminist theory KW - India KW - Feminism KW - Dalit women KW - Social conditions KW - Caste N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Theorizing Dalit feminism / Sunaina Arya and Aakash Singh Rathore -- A critical view on intersectionality / Nivedita Menon -- Problems for a contemporary theory of gender / Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana -- Indian feminism and 'Dalit patriarchy' / Gopal Guru, V. Geetha, and Uma Chakravarti -- Dalit women's agency and Phule-Ambedkarite feminism / Shailaja Paik -- Ambedkarite women / Wandana Sonalkar -- Ramabai and Ambedkar / Sharmila Rege -- Brahmanical nature of violence against women / Sharmila Rege -- Vilifying Dalit women : epics and aesthetics / Vizia Bharati and Y.S. Alone -- Dalit women's autobiographies / Sharmila Rege -- 'Difference' through intersectionality / Kimberlé Crenshaw -- Dalit women talk differently / Gopal Guru -- Debating Dalit difference / Sharmila Rege -- Why intersectionality is necessary / S.J. Aloysius, J.P. Mangubhai and J.G. Lee -- The Dalit woman question / Susie Tharu -- Responses to Indian feminists' objections / Mary E. John and Meena Gopal -- Feminist fictions : a critique of Indian feminism / Julie Stephens -- Revitalising Dalit feminism / Smita M. Patil -- Dalit women's experience : toward a Dalit feminist theory / Kanchana Mahadevan N2 - "Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader reorients Indian feminism by examining the relationship between gender and caste to achieve gender justice for all women, not just women of privileged castes"-- ER -