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Format	Hardback
Published	November 10, 2018
ISBN-13	9780295743820
Language	English
Pages	224
Illustrations	21 b&w illus., 1 chart, 3 tables
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.1 Pounds (US)
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Format	Paperback / softback
Published	November 10, 2018
ISBN-13	9780295743844
Language	English
Pages	224
Illustrations	21 b&w illus., 1 chart, 3 tables
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.7 Pounds (US)
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Privileged Minorities

Name: Privileged Minorities
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Author: Sonja Thomas
ISBN: 9780295743820

Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India

By Sonja Thomas
Series edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan, Padma Kaimal and Anand A. Yang

University of Washington Press

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position. Focusing on Syrian Christian women, Sonja Thomas explores how this community illuminates larger questions of multiple oppressions, privilege and subordination, racialization, and religion and secularism in India.

In Privileged Minorities, Thomas examines a wide range of sources, including oral histories, ethnographic interviews, and legislative assembly debates, to interrogate the relationships between religious rights and women's rights in Kerala. Using an intersectional approach, and US women of color feminist theory, she demonstrates the ways that race, caste, gender, religion, and politics are inextricably intertwined, with power and privilege working in complex and nuanced ways. By attending to the ways in which inequalities within groups shape very different experiences of religious and political movements in feminist and rights-based activism, Thomas lays the groundwork for imagining new feminist solidarities across religions, castes, races, and classes.

About the Authors

Sonja Thomas is assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College.

Reviews

"Privileged Minorities successfully problematizes the politics of minority rights, interrogating whether numerical minority status equates to sociopolitical disadvantage...[A] crucial text for the expert and non-expert alike..."—Religious Studies Review

Endorsements

"In her study of power and patriarchy in Kerala, Thomas expertly weaves caste, race, and religion into her analysis, attending closely to the roles that denominational myths, histories, and politics play in the formation of Kerala's gender dynamics."—Corinne Dempsey, author of Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India

"Sheds light on the complex dynamics of majority / minority populations in India through an intersectional feminist analysis of Syrian Christianity in Kerala."—Meena Khandelwal, author of Women in Ochre Robes: Gendering Hindu Renunciation

"Till now there has been little scholarly analysis of a minority within the minority. Sonja Thomas breaks new ground by illuminating both the privileges that Syrian Christian women enjoy and the subjugation they experience, reflecting on the implications of their complex identities for feminist theory and activism."—Amrita Basu, Paino Professor of Political Science and Sexuality, Women's, and Gender Studies, Amherst College

Publisher	University of Washington Press
Series	Global South Asia
BISAC Subject Headings	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies (240 Titles) HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia (87 Titles) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social (589 Titles)

Format	Hardback
Published	November 10, 2018
ISBN-13	9780295743820
Language	English
Pages	224
Illustrations	21 b&w illus., 1 chart, 3 tables
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.1 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$105.00 USD, £76.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	November 10, 2018
ISBN-13	9780295743844
Language	English
Pages	224
Illustrations	21 b&w illus., 1 chart, 3 tables
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.7 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$32.00 USD, £22.99 GBP
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