Ideology, caste, class and gender / Selvy Thiruchandran

Contents

Part 1. Theory and methodology
1. Ideology, class and caste: a gender specific analysis
2. methodology

Part 2. Theory and methodology
3. The early period
4. Feminine evil and hegemonic patriarchy
5. Liberal reforms, feminist consciousness and national models, an overall ambivalence, the colonial period

Part 3. Gender and its ideological significations across caste and class
6. Brahmin women within the idiom of caste
7. Middle range castes, a shift in structure
8. Adidravida women at cross roads
9. Ideological persistence and protests

Part 4. Women in the celluloid image, Ideological reconstruction and representation
10. Film industry in Tamil Nadu, the historical growth
11. Film analysis from a feminist approach
12. Coded messages and connotations in the Tamil films and their implications at the level of gender
13. Restructured gender ideology
14. Persisting patriarchy

Includes bibliographical references and index