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Breaking The Silence: Gender, Caste and Transgression of Rural Feminism Thesis Statement
Breaking The Silence: Gender, Caste and Transgression of Rural Feminism Thesis Statement
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Conc lusion
Class , Caste and Shanicharis Ambivalence : Setting is of decaying feudalism within a colonial or newly post colonial landscape. Talks about relationship between classes and patriarchies as complex and variable. Ambivalence in Performances : An ambivalence similar to Shanicharis complex relation with her oppressors and to the ambivalence in the mode of characterization adopted by the film is present in elements of performances in film. Work , Sex and Ambivalence : Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism - that which is must ones own , yet must taken away . Rudaali uses and problematizes both these conceptualizations.