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Author:   Mary Grey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781845536060

ISBN 10:   1845536061
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 September 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction 1. Caste in a Culture of Globalisation 2. Born a Woman and Dalit: The Poisoned Chalice – the Daily Life of Dalit Women 3. Religion, Violence and Dalit Women 4. Purity, Pollution and a Worsening Oppression 5. The Spirituality of Dalit Women - Sustaining or Oppressing? 6. Dalit Women, Christianity and Christian Church 7. Feminist Liberation Theology: A Resource for Dalit Women? 8. Opposition to Untouchability: Gandhi and Ambedkar 9. Dalit Women – Looking to the Future Appendix A: International Dalit Solidarity Network: Employment and Additional Principles on Economic and Social Exclusion Formulated to Assist all Foreign Investors in South Asia to Address Caste Discrimination Appendix B: Dalit Solidarity Network UK: Foul Play Appendix C: The 22 Vows of Ambedkar

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Mary Grey is a writer and theologian, currently Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Wales, Lampeter. She and her husband Dr Nicholas Grey are co-founders of the NGO Wells for India working for water provision and women's situation in the drought-prone state of Rajasthan. She is also a patron and former trustee of the Dalit Solidarity Network UK and has worked on the situation of Dalit women with the Centre for Dalit Studies in New Delhi. Recent books include Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist Theology and Globalisation (SCM, 2003, Fortress, 2004), Pursuing the Dream: A Jewish Christian Conversation with Rabbi Dan Cohn Sherbok (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2005) and To Rwanda and Back: Liberation Spirituality and Reconciliation (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2007).

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