Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation

Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation
ISBN-10
1108883435
ISBN-13
9781108883436
Series
Witch Hunts
Category
Social Science
Language
English
Published
2020-07-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan

Description

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.

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