[Reader-list] [Announcements] invitation to a talk on The Kinship Contract or How the Tamil Political Subject is almost always Masculine

[Society for Social Research]

*Society for Social Research *

Invites you to a talk

By

*V. Geetha** *

Eminent Social Historian and  Feminist Activist

On

*The Kinship Contract or How the Tamil Political Subject is almost
always Masculine   ***



Chair*: Prof. Patricia Uberoi*

Eminent Sociologist, Institute of Economic Growth

Date*: 26th July , 2007(Thursday)*

*Time: 11.00 A.M.*



Venue*- Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics,
University of Delhi*

Delhi-110007





*Abstract *



*The Kinship Contract or How the Tamil Political Subject is almost
always Masculine   ***

* *

One of the more exciting aspects of feminist scholarship in recent times has
to do with the theorising of the relationship between caste and gender. This
relationship has proved germane to diverse enquiries – from studies of dalit
women's activism to understanding Hindu masculinity. In this presentation, I
would like to re-look this relationship in terms of political mobilisation
and rhetoric in Tamil Nadu – especially the manner in which fictive kinship
mediates and structures the political community as a distinctively masculine
one. I would like to draw on the work of Lebanese feminist,  Suad Joseph to
understand what she refers to as 'the kinship contract', how it functions to
both create male political subjects, while ignoring, subsuming and
marginalising female persons.



*About V. Geetha***

* ***

"A writer, translator, social historian and activist, *V. Geetha* is a
freelance editor with a number of small research journals. A leading
intellectual from Tamil Nadu, she has been active in the Indian women's
movement since 1988, organising workshops and conferences. V. Geetha has
written widely, both in Tamil and English, on gender, popular culture,
caste, and politics of Tamil Nadu. Among the books she has authored are Tara
Publishing's An Ideal Boy (with Gita Wolf and Sirish Rao), Gender in the
Theorizing Feminism Series, and Towards a Non-Brahmin Millenneu: from
Iyothee Thass to Periyar (both published by Stree). Her Tamil books include
Self-respect and Samadharma: life and thought of Antonio Gramsci, Frankfurt
Marxism, and An Introduction to Althusser (published by Vidiyal and other
alternative Tamil publishers)."
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