The Politics of Caste-Gender Nexus and the Dalit Feminist Response: Reading Three Dalit Women Writers

Abstract

If difference as a concept has been justly pressed into service in thinking identity in general, it has proved to be all the more crucial in negotiating the womenís question, for gender as a category today has to reckon with the pluralizing and complex factors like caste, class, culture, race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and so on. The context of Indian Dalit women has to be understood from such an awareness of the situation where the difference is made by the peculiarity of the caste-gender nexus that has bedevilled their lives.