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Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Pandey, Gyanendra

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General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1478028157
ISBN13: 9781478028154
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 28 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.10 Depth: 6.10
Language: English
In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of men's comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous commitment to this critical part of their lives. The author draws on a wealth of archival materials--autobiographies, memoirs, fiction, and ethnographies--to situate Indian men firmly in the domestic world, underlining their dependence on the family and home. He investigates how men negotiate marriage, intimacy, and conjugality and focuses the effects of the humiliating and constant assertion of gender, caste, and class power in familial interactions. To uncover the nuances of these relationships, Pandey attends to the domestic commitments of upper-, middle-, and lower-class men across religion and caste. He considers issues of honor and shame, rights and responsibilities, citizenship and belonging through this exploration of how men across the subcontinent understand themselves in and beyond their domestic relationships. As much as it is a book about masculinity and conjugality, this is a book about Indian modernity, nationalism, and society as seen from the location of men in the home.

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