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Lives in Dialogue:Discourses of Masculinity in India |
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Radhika Chopra |
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In a culturally plural society like India, we cannot assume that gender relations are homogeneous.
In this article, the author begins from a position that presumes diversity as an illustrative
and substantive starting point to analyse ‘supportive practices’ of men. Drawing primarily on
ethnographic research, she asks—does support exist? If it does, do we know how to recognize
support or where to look for the ‘doing’ of support? The author looks back at the historiography
of the nationalist movement, on the one hand, and on the ‘muted’ category of male domestic
labour, on the other, to outline what she considers as the substantive material existence and the
ideological orientation of what she believes are supportive practices of men. |
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