A Constituency Suitable for Ladies

Author: Wendy SingerPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2007Language: EnglishPages: 246ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195679008 DescriptionThis book focuses on the Indian tradition, since before independence, of establishing separate electoral constituencies for women. Women have participated in politics through a variety of creative and innovative forms. Wendy Singer demonstrates that using the category of women as a lens through which to view the practices and particularities of elections, can illuminate the whole process in profound and unexpected ways. Singer reveals that far more than simply being markers of democracy, the practice and process of elections are part of an ongoing social drama that re-enacts citizenship. Therefore, the narratives of the women as a special category of citizen are constantly influenced by and influencing the related histories of other social groups—Dalits, minorities, and backwards classes.A Constituency Suitable for Ladies—derived from the Congress pa