{"product_id":"gender-and-modernity-in-kerala-politics-praxes-paradoxes-9789354424632","title":"Gender and Modernity in Kerala: Politics, Praxes, Paradoxes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Meena T. Pillai\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together scholarly explorations of the idea and practice of modernity, focusing on gendered archives of modernity from Kerala. The essays in this volume investigate marginalised, unexplored and less discernible gendered narratives. They draw upon archival material that ranges from some of the earliest textual iterations of gender since Kerala’s initial engagements with modernity, to its various contemporary digital representations. The volume engages with a range of questions including literary, cultural and digital discourses around women’s clothes, body, menstruation, education, vocation, writing, caste identities and everyday practices. \u003cem\u003eGender and Modernity in Kerala\u003c\/em\u003e, while unearthing debates that earlier projects of modernity failed to erase, makes a compelling argument for re-reading India’s multiple modernities from the perspective of gender.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616520003735,"sku":"9789354424632","price":269.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789354424632.webp?v=1769295009","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gender-and-modernity-in-kerala-politics-praxes-paradoxes-9789354424632","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}