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Women’s Lives, Women’s Stories: Examining Caste Through Life History Interviews in Baroda

Chitnis, Varsha Sanjeev
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408668529

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Womens Studies.
This project rethinks caste by incorporating the voices and experiences of upper caste women. I use life history method to examine the intersections of caste, class and gender in the lives of Marathi-speaking, upper caste women in the city of Baroda, in Western Indian state of Gujarat. In examining these life history narratives, I identify domesticity as one of the central organizing principles of both caste and gender, and examine the linkages between gender, caste, sexuality and labor as aspects of the ideology of domesticity. I argue that caste-based inequalities are sustained through the normalization of domestic relationships and domesticity, and call for the incorporation of the institutions of the family, marriage, labor, sexuality and domesticity within the purview of caste and anti-caste theories in contemporary India. In emphasizing the importance of domesticity to the sustenance of gender and caste hierarchies, this project draws attention to the political nature of domestic spaces and relationships.
Mytheli Sreenivas (Advisor)
382 p.
Gender; Gender Studies; South Asian Studies; Womens Studies
Caste and Gender, Caste Epistemology, Caste in India, Domesticity, Caste and Domesticity

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  • Chitnis, V. S. (2014). Women’s Lives, Women’s Stories: Examining Caste Through Life History Interviews in Baroda [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408668529

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chitnis, Varsha. Women’s Lives, Women’s Stories: Examining Caste Through Life History Interviews in Baroda . 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408668529.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chitnis, Varsha. "Women’s Lives, Women’s Stories: Examining Caste Through Life History Interviews in Baroda ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408668529

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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