ABSTRACT

The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men’s engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India. The chapters in this collection respond to two broad thematic concerns: theoretical implications of men producing feminist knowledge and the history of men’s participation in feminist endeavours. The volume also explores the undocumented contributions of men to three domains of feminist activity: institutionalization of feminism in the academy, social movements aimed at gender justice, and male writings on gender and sexuality.

Delving into an important yet overlooked aspect of the social sciences, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, masculinity studies, modern Indian history, sociology, and social anthropology.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Men and feminism in India

part I|81 pages

Institutions

chapter 1|14 pages

Disrupting coherence

Self-reflections of a male ethnographer

chapter 2|15 pages

Masculinity studies and feminism

Othering the self, engaging theory

chapter 3|23 pages

Men in women’s studies

A case study

chapter 4|27 pages

Doing and undoing feminism

A jurisdictional journey

part II|97 pages

Movements

chapter 5|20 pages

Reformer-Man and feminist man

The end of an era in Kerala

chapter 6|21 pages

A feminist journey

Population and health in post-feminist times

chapter 7|20 pages

On disloyalty

chapter 8|16 pages

Men in Feminism

LGBT and feminist entanglements over masculinity

part III|51 pages

Writings

chapter 10|13 pages

A curious friendship

chapter 11|23 pages

Challenging caste, doing gender

Paradoxes of male writings in North India

chapter 12|13 pages

Feminism and the question of man

Negotiating the (im)possible