Basu: Two Faces Of Protest: Contrasting Modes Of Women′s Activism In India (cloth) - Hardcover

Basu, Amrita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520065069 ISBN 13: 9780520065062

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this work examines Indian women's political activism. Investigating institutional changes at the state level and protest at the village level, Amrita Basu traces the paths of two kinds of political activism among these women. With insights gleaned from extensive interviews with activists, government officials, and ordinary men and women, she finds that militancy has been fueled by pronounced sexual class cleavages combined with potentially rancorous ethnic division.

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Review

"Studies of political activism in the developing world overwhelmingly focus on class relations. [This is] a welcome and fascinating example of how to incorporate ethnic and gender relations into such analysis."--"Choice

About the Author

Amrita Basu is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520065069
• ISBN 13: 9780520065062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318