browngirlsgang: Six Books By Dalit Women Writers Exploring Lives Lived On The Margins Of Caste And G
browngirlsgang: Six Books By Dalit Women Writers Exploring Lives Lived On The Margins Of Caste And Gender By Vaishnavi Mahurkar “Dalit women’s voices have been inadequately represented or sometimes completely erased from the literary canon. Other times, Dalit women have been represented in romanticized narratives, without a real examination of their marginalized position in the hierarchy of caste and gender. The Dalit feminist struggle began when the upper caste women’s movement discarded the category of caste as impactful of the woman’s position, claiming that caste had been transcended by category of “woman”. Dalit women’s issues did not find a place in that narrative.” See full article -- source link
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