TY  - BOOK
AU  - Devika,J.
AU  - Devika,J.
TI  - Her-self: gender and early writings of Malayali women, 1898-1938 
SN  - 9789381345672
U1  - 305.42095483 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Malayalam literature
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Female education
KW  - Women
KW  - fast
N1  - First published by Stree in 2005
N2  - Translated for the first time into English, these 29 pieces of early writings of Malayali women (1898-1938)--Nambutiris, Nairs, Ezhavas, Syrian Christians and two Muslims--who had access to education, reveal the vigorous debate over modern gender relations that was taking place. Women reflected on what was 'Womanly' and on education, duties, vocation and civil roles--an ongoing discussion, first influenced by reformism and later by nationalist and communist ideas. In her new Preface for this reprint, author talks of how the collection offers many genealogies for Malayali feminism, making it both local and cosmopolitan. Indeed, this genealogy enables us to address many of the challenges that mainstream feminism in India now faces, for example, that of developing intersectional analyses of patriarchal oppression. Taken together, these pieces are efforts to define, in their unique ways, 'women's perspectives' as specifically oppositional standpoints. Many are replies, rejoinders and responses to male public figures who claimed to speak on behalf of a 'general good', especially of women
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