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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction: Away from the iconic and the normative: the unlikely subjects of gender and politics/Manuela Ciotti. 2. Designing Selves: masculine and feminine frames in late colonial times/Tanika Sarkar. 3. Representing Dalit bodies in colonial India/Charu Gupta. 4. Textbooks and the gendering of a national imagination/Sylvie Guichard. 5. Rethinking the women's bill: claims for a 'level playing field'/Wendy Singer. 6. Gendering 'Participation': Jhuria's narratives of Dalit Politics in a North Indian Village/Badri Narayan. 7. 'I Will see the World': The Production of Political subjectives among local Dalit Women Leaders in Lucknow/Manuela Ciotti. 8. Bacchon ki Fauj (children's Armies): Masculinities and male-child Moralities in an Urban Indian Slum/Atreyee Sen. 9. Rescuing gender From the Dalit Trap? the Intersection of caste and gender in Tamil Dalit Movements/Hugo Gorringe. How have the archetypes for femininities and masculinities been reshaped in Indian political history and in the present? How have the practises and subjectivities of non-elite individuals and communities contributed to the production of alternative self representation? What does a focus on the linkages between materialities and ideologies reveal in such an inquiry? Unsettling the Archetypes addresses these questions from the standpoint of longstanding issues within Indian society, history and culture. An expression of multiple temporalities and diverse regional contexts, these issues range from the nationalist movement for independence to the career of the Women's Bill in Parliament; violence in Hindu-Muslim relations; meanings surrounding the body; the life of history textbooks; and forms of activism among Dalit communities. Rather than offering one encompassing framework for all phenomena, the essays in this volume sketch new lineages, connections, and ruptures in the production of femininities and masculinities across political time and space. They compel the readers to move beyond known frameworks and to expand the existing repertoire of possible selves, while unsettling their order.