Witch hunts : culture, patriarchy, and structural transformation / Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan ; with contributions from Tara Ahluwalia [and others].

Kelkar, Govind, 1939-
Call Number
133.4/3
Author
Kelkar, Govind, 1939- author.
Title
Witch hunts : culture, patriarchy, and structural transformation / Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan ; with contributions from Tara Ahluwalia [and others].
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 May 2020).
Summary
Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. It combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. It brings in field data from India and South-East Asia and incorporates a large body of works on witch hunts across geographies and histories. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, knowledge practices and adaptation in structural transformation.
Added Author
Nathan, Dev, author.
Subject
Witchcraft Social aspects.
Women Social conditions.
Multimedia
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Summary
Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. It combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. It brings in field data from India and South-East Asia and incorporates a large body of works on witch hunts across geographies and histories. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, knowledge practices and adaptation in structural transformation.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 May 2020).
Subject
Witchcraft Social aspects.
Women Social conditions.
Multimedia